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| Fluorine-containing elastomer composition | 20110021690 | 20110127 |
| There is provided a fluorine-containing elastomer composition assuring easy kneading and providing a crosslinked article having improved strength. The fluorine-containing elastomer composition comprises (A) an elastomer of a vinylidene fluoride/hexafluoropropylene copolymer having a branching coefficient of 30 to 300 ppm, a Mooney viscosity (ML1+10: 121° C.) of 7 to 80 and a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 1.5 to 4, and (B) an elastomer of a vinylidene fluoride/hexafluoropropylene copolymer having a storage modulus G′ at 180° C. at 500 cpm of 500 to 900, and a mass ratio of (A)/(B) is 70/30 to 90/10.
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| Semiconductor device | 20110016266 | 20110120 |
| On a single semiconductor package PK1, m semiconductor chips CP1 to CPm are mounted, and the semiconductor package PK1 has external terminals T shared by m pad electrodes PD1 to PDm of the m semiconductor chips CP1 to CPm. An electrostatic protection circuit CD is mounted on only one CPm of the m semiconductor chips CP1 to CPm.
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| Method for repelling a rodent, method for capturing a rodent and rodent repellent | 20110008264 | 20110113 |
| The rodent repelling method of the invention is a method for repelling a rodent, which uses a smoke generated by thermal decomposition of azodicarbonamide as an active ingredient and the aforementioned smoke is diffused to a smoke quantity of 45 cpm or more.
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| Facility for processing verbal feedback and updating digital video recorder(dvr) recording patterns | 20110004477 | 20110106 |
| A method, a system and a computer program product for using speech/voice recognition technology to update digital video recorder (DVR) program recording patterns, based on program viewer/listener feedback. A speech controlled pattern modification (SCPM) utility utilizes a DVR recording sub-system integrated with speech processing functionality to compare control phrases with phrases uttered by a viewer. If a control phrase matches a phrase uttered by the viewer, the SCPM utility modifies the DVR recording patterns, according to a set of pre-programmed governing rules. For example, the SCPM utility may avoid modifying the recording patterns for programs within a list of “favorite” programs but may modify the recording patterns for programs excluded from the list. The SCPM utility determines priority of the uttered phrases by identifying users and... |
| Method and system for managing storing of messages in communication network | 20100325224 | 20101223 |
| A method and system for storing of CPM messages in a communication network. The method includes receiving a CPM message that is to be delivered to a CPM client, identifying a user preference, sending the CPM message to the CPM client through a SIP channel, converting the CPM message into an IMAP, storing the IMAP message in the message storage server, receiving a UID associated with the IMAP message stored in the message storage server, and sending information associated with the CPM message and the UID to the CPM client.
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| Cpm service provisioning system and method for interworking with non-cpm service | 20100325192 | 20101223 |
| A system and method for interworking a Converged-IP Messaging (CPM) service to another messaging service. In particular, the present invention realizes a function of allowing a CPM service's recipient to receive a message sent from another CPM service's sender using a non-CPM service to which the recipient has subscribed. To this end, the present invention uses preference information of a recipient in determining a non-CPM service to be subjected to interworking. In this way, the CPM service can interwork with non-CPM services, contributing to expansion of an area where services can be provided.
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| Method for generating a data block for transmission using a cpm scheme | 20100316166 | 20101216 |
| A method for generating a data block for transmission using a continuous phase modulation scheme is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes inserting payload data in the data block, the payload data having a plurality of payload symbols, each involving an state change in a continuous phase modulation waveform generated from the data block in one of two opposite directions. It may include inserting state compensation data in the data block for cancelling out the state changes, such that the waveform has an end state at the end of the data block equal to a begin state at the beginning of the data block. The state compensation data is determined by determining from the state changes an overall state change caused by the payload data... |
| Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data using satellite channel | 20100316161 | 20101216 |
| A method for transmitting data using a satellite channel includes: channel-encoding bit data using an e-BCH code; interleaving the encoded data; modulating the interleaved data according to a CPM scheme using four symbols; and transmitting the modulated data to a hub station.
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| Frequency domain equalization method for continuous phase modulated signals | 20100316107 | 20101216 |
| A method for frequency domain equalization of a cyclic CPM signal received via a channel is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes representing the received cyclic CPM signal as a matrix model comprising a channel matrix representing influence of the channel, separate from a Laurent pulse matrix and a pseudocoefficient matrix respectively representing Laurent pulses and pseudocoefficients determined by Laurent decomposition of the received cyclic CPM signal. The method may further include applying a channel equalizer on the separate channel matrix and after the equalization. It may further include demodulating the received cyclic CPM signal by the matrix model, the demodulation exploiting known correlation properties of the Laurent pulses and the pseudocoefficients.
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| Method and apparatus for constant envelope modulation | 20100310009 | 20101209 |
| Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for modulating single carrier signals using constant envelope 2-CPM modulation and quasi-constant envelope filtered continuously rotated pseudo-PSK modulation in a wireless communication system.
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| Method and apparatus for continuous phase modulation preamble encoding and decoding | 20100309958 | 20101209 |
| Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for generating single carrier signals with spread-spectrum coded preambles using constant envelope 2-CPM modulation for transmission in a wireless communication system, and for efficient despreading method at a receiver.
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| Method and apparatus for constant envelope demodulation | 20100309959 | 20101209 |
| Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for demodulating CPM modulated signals transmitted in a wired or wireless communication system using a linear modulation model consisting of a linear superposition of time pulses modulated using pseudo-PSK pulses.
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| Methods and materials for detecting gene amplification | 20100297649 | 20101125 |
| This document relates to methods and materials involved in detecting gene amplification in a mammal. For example, methods and materials for detecting amplification at CPM and MDM2 loci to determine the presence or absence of a malignant lipomatous neoplasm in a mammal are provided.
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| Method for storing conversation upon user's request in cpm system, and system thereof | 20100293240 | 20101118 |
| A method for storing a conversation upon a user's real-time request in a Converged-IP Messaging (CPM) service is provided. The method includes storing a conversation in a message storage server on a network or stopping the storage of the conversation upon a user's request. A target that can be stored within a conversation includes a pager mode message, a large message, and media delivered through the session. In this manner, media in the conversation may be limited to media selected by a user.
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| Protein expression system | 20100287670 | 20101111 |
| The inventions is based on an expression enhancer sequence derived from the RNA-2 genome segment of a bipartite RNA virus, in which a target initiation site in the RNA-2 genome segment has been mutated. Deletion of appropriate start codons upstream of the main RNA2 translation initiation can greatly increase in foreign protein accumulation without the need for viral replication. Also provided are methods, vectors and systems, including the ‘hyper-translatable’ Cowpea Mosaic Virus (‘CPMV-HT’) based protein expression system.
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| Simultaneous excitation and acquisition of signal from multiple slices in the rare sequence (multiplex rare) | 20100259260 | 20101014 |
| A method for RARE magnetic resonance imaging comprising slice selective excitation of two or more slices and of one or more nuclei, followed by refocusing of these slices and application of gradient pulses which cause a diversion of the signal into spin echoes and stimulated echoes, is characterized by application of refocusing slice selective RF pulses, which are placed to fulfill the echo-spacing CPMG condition for each slice and by arrangement of gradient pulses which cause the phase accumulated by spins in each slice between two consecutive refocusing RF pulses corresponding to that slice to be equal, thus fulfilling the CPMG phase accumulation condition. Thereby, the obtainable signal can be increased and stabilized.
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| Systems and method for protected memory | 20100250058 | 20100930 |
| Systems and a method for a crash protected memory (CPM) are provided. The CPM includes a housing that includes a wall wherein at least a portion of the wall is at least partially transparent to radio frequency (RF) radiation. The housing includes an interior cavity sealable from an exterior of the housing. The CPM also includes a receiver positioned within the interior of the housing. The receiver is configured to communicatively couple to a transmitter through the at least a portion of the wall. The CPM further includes a memory for storing data related to the operation of a vehicle communicatively coupled to the receiver.
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| Tracking ad unit performance | 20100228623 | 20100909 |
| Methods and computer storage media for tracking and reporting ad unit performance are described. Tags are associated with ad units and may be manually associated and/or extracted from content items to be presented on a webpage associated with an ad unit. Upon receipt of a request for an advertisement to be presented in association with an ad unit, one or more associated tags are also received. Performance of the ad unit may be tracked utilizing the associated tags and one or more performance data elements, for instance, click-through-rate, income generated by the ad unit, visitor data, number of impressions, and expected cost per thousand impressions (eCPM). Reports on the tracked performance may be generated as desired.
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| Mobilization of a complete cells mixture with embryonic like stem cells from the peripheral blood | 20100226894 | 20100909 |
| Disclosed is a method to recover a mixture cell population consisting of a complete profile of progenitor cells including embryonic like stem cells (a “complete progenitor cell mixture” or CPM) from the peripheral blood of an individual by administering to that individual a combination of at least one or more from the category of growth factors and hormones combining with at least one or more from the category of cell fusion inhibitor compounds, and then recovering peripheral blood progenitor cells from said individual. The hormones and growth factors group should include hGH (human growth hormone) with or without erythropoietin (EPO), but specifically without either G-CSF or GM-CSF. The cell fusion inhibitor group should include a CXCR4 antagonist. Also disclosed is a method for using or preserving... |
| Method and apparatus for generating m-ary cpm waveforms from a superposition of pam waveforms | 20100195769 | 20100805 |
| To reflect advantages of a constant phase modulation waveform, the invention provides a pulse amplitude modulated PAM waveform that is a superposition of Q0≦2L−1 PAM component pulses in each symbol interval such that a significant portion of signal energy over each symbol interval is within the Q0 PAM component pulses. The present invention distributes most signal energy in one pulse and progressively lower energies in the remaining Q0−1 pulses of a symbol interval. The Laurent Decomposition is a special case of the present invention, but the present invention exhibits the energy distribution of the Laurent Decomposition in non-binary CPM waveforms and in multi-h (binary and non-binary) CPM waveforms, where h is a modulating index. All energy is distributed among only Q=2L−1 pulses in each symbol interval,... |
| Method for delivering cpm message and server thereof | 20100185741 | 20100722 |
| Disclosed is a method for delivering a message in a converged IP messaging (CPM) server. The message delivery method may include determining whether to reject a CPM message based on the access policy if the CPM message is received; checking a user preference of a target terminal to determine processing of the CPM message if it is determined that the CPM message is not rejected; determining whether to reject, defer or store the CPM message based on the user preference if the target terminal is not registered or in an unreceivable state; storing the CPM message in a queue if it is determined that a transmission of the CPM message is deferred; determining whether to discard or store the CPM message based on the user preference... |
| Method for delivering message based on cpm service and server thereof | 20100185740 | 20100722 |
| A method for delivering a message from a converged IP messaging (CPM) server include: checking registered target terminals that can receive a message from a source terminal based on a user preference; determining whether to deliver a message from the source terminal to the checked target terminal based on the user preference; when the message is determined to be delivered, determining whether to store the message in a message storage server based on the user preference; when the message is determined to be stored, requesting the message storage server to store the message; receiving a response message including information regarding the stored message from the message storage server; and including the information in the message and transmitting the same to the target terminal.
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| Modular avionics system of an aircraft | 20100153684 | 20100617 |
| A modular avionics system includes several cabinets arranged at various locations in an aircraft and interconnected in a network. The cabinets are used for controlling or processing signals from and to sensors, actuators and other systems of the aircraft. The system includes parallel processors, for example transputers. The cabinets comprise at least two core processor modules (CPM1, CPM2) and at least two input/output modules (IOM1, IOM2). The input/output modules (IOM1, IOM2) serve as interfaces to the systems to be controlled, and serve for the control and intermediate storage of the data flowing into and out of the cabinet. Each core processor module (CPM1, CPM2) communicates independently with each IOM module and CPM module by way of links; and in each core processor a number of independent... |
| Method and apparatus for sending instant message disposition notification request and response in a converged-ip messaging service and system thereof | 20100153505 | 20100617 |
| A method is provided for sending an Instant Message Disposition Notification (IMDN) request to a receiving terminal by a sending terminal in a Converged-IP Messaging (CPM) service. The sending terminal generates an instant message to be sent to the receiving terminal, inserts an IMDN request message into the generated instant message, the IMDN request message including a predetermined response limit time, and sends the instant message with the IMDN request message to the receiving terminal through a CPM server.
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| Method and system for controlling session for interworking in converged ip messaging service | 20100138484 | 20100603 |
| Disclosed is a session control method in a Converged Internet Protocol (IP) Messaging (CPM) server for supporting a CPM session between a first client subscribing to a CPM service and a second client not subscribing to the CPM service, the session control method includes, after the CPM session is initiated between the first and second clients through the CPM server and an Interworking Function (IWF), receiving a session modification request message including specific media from the first client; sending the session modification request message including the specific media to the IWF through the initiated CPM session; and receiving a response message from the IWF, the response message including a reason for a rejection of the session modification request message including the specific media.
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| Nuclear magnetic resonance measurement techniques in non-uniform fields | 20100134104 | 20100603 |
| Methods and pulse sequences for facilitating nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements in grossly inhomogeneous fields. Methods and pulse sequences according to the invention may be used to accurately measure variables such as transverse relaxation time, longitudinal relaxation time, and diffusion, without the need for data at long recovery time, thereby allowing for faster measurements. In addition, methods and pulse sequences according to embodiment of the invention may allow simultaneous encoding of information in both the amplitude and the shape of echoes, so as to allow a single-shot measurement of multiple variables, e.g., both transverse relaxation time (from the decay of echo amplitudes) and longitudinal relaxation time (from the echo shape). CPMG detection may be used to overcome the often limited signal-to-noise ratio in grossly inhomogeneous fields.
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| Transmissions with reduced code rate in 8vsb digital television | 20100124287 | 20100520 |
| Procedures performed prior to convolutional interleaving of 8VSB digital television signals restrict the alphabet of symbols in novel methods of generating trellis-coded digital television signals that include more robust symbol coding using a restricted alphabet of symbols selected from a full 8VSB symbol alphabet consisting of −7, −5, −3, −1, +1, +3, +5 and +7 normalized modulation levels superposed on a background modulation level. Certain of these novel procedures generate pseudo-2VSB or P-2VSB robust symbol coding with a restricted alphabet of symbols consisting of −7, −5, +5 and +7 normalized modulation levels superposed on a background modulation level. Others of these novel procedures generate prescribed-coset-pattern-modulation or PCPM robust symbol coding intermixing two restricted alphabets of symbols according to a prescribed pattern. One of the two restricted... |
| Data transmission system and method | 20100111205 | 20100506 |
| Continuous-phase high compaction multicarrier-modulation (CPPC/HC-MCM) according to the present application uses a continuous phase modulation (CPM) technique to prevent an amplitude gap between two continuous signals, thereby improving characteristics of the conventional PC/HC-MCM in terms of effective use of a frequency bandwidth. The CPPC/HC-MCM can achieve a lower bit error rate (BER) for a wide signal-to-noise ratio at a common spectral efficiency of about 0.33 or less, as compared to the conventional unmodulated PC/HC-MCM.
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| Content slots for digital media | 20100088716 | 20100408 |
| A method wherein digital content, distributed on DVD (standard and High Definition variants such as Blue-Ray), CD (Computer Disk), or other digital storage media or downloaded as one or more files or streamed or broadcast is played interspersed with one or more advertising slots (also referred to in this disclosure as just-in-time content slots). Also detailed is method and steps for discovery of advertising slot information and fetching content for each slot by DVD players or end-user equipment that enable just-in-time content slots per this disclosure. Also included is method and steps for managing DVD advertising slot inventory, targeting of advertisements, building and operating advertising network including market place for buying/selling/auctioning advertising spot inventory, making available advertisements for pickup by advertising slot publishers, and tracking of... |
| Shoulder continuous passive motion device | 20100076354 | 20100325 |
| A shoulder continuous passive motion (“CPM”) device is provided. The shoulder CPM has a motor and a drive mechanism configured to move a slidable arm holder linearly back and forth. The motor can move the drive mechanism linearly back and forth. The drive mechanism can be attached to the arm holder. A user can insert at least a portion of his arm into the arm holder, such that the shoulder CPM device moves his arm linearly back and forth, thereby providing therapeutic treatment to the shoulder of the user.
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| Semiconductor device | 20110016266 | 20110120 |
| On a single semiconductor package PK1, m semiconductor chips CP1 to CPm are mounted, and the semiconductor package PK1 has external terminals T shared by m pad electrodes PD1 to PDm of the m semiconductor chips CP1 to CPm. An electrostatic protection circuit CD is mounted on only one CPm of the m semiconductor chips CP1 to CPm.
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| Method for repelling a rodent, method for capturing a rodent and rodent repellent | 20110008264 | 20110113 |
| The rodent repelling method of the invention is a method for repelling a rodent, which uses a smoke generated by thermal decomposition of azodicarbonamide as an active ingredient and the aforementioned smoke is diffused to a smoke quantity of 45 cpm or more.
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| Facility for processing verbal feedback and updating digital video recorder(dvr) recording patterns | 20110004477 | 20110106 |
| A method, a system and a computer program product for using speech/voice recognition technology to update digital video recorder (DVR) program recording patterns, based on program viewer/listener feedback. A speech controlled pattern modification (SCPM) utility utilizes a DVR recording sub-system integrated with speech processing functionality to compare control phrases with phrases uttered by a viewer. If a control phrase matches a phrase uttered by the viewer, the SCPM utility modifies the DVR recording patterns, according to a set of pre-programmed governing rules. For example, the SCPM utility may avoid modifying the recording patterns for programs within a list of “favorite” programs but may modify the recording patterns for programs excluded from the list. The SCPM utility determines priority of the uttered phrases by identifying users and... |
| Method and system for managing storing of messages in communication network | 20100325224 | 20101223 |
| A method and system for storing of CPM messages in a communication network. The method includes receiving a CPM message that is to be delivered to a CPM client, identifying a user preference, sending the CPM message to the CPM client through a SIP channel, converting the CPM message into an IMAP, storing the IMAP message in the message storage server, receiving a UID associated with the IMAP message stored in the message storage server, and sending information associated with the CPM message and the UID to the CPM client.
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| Cpm service provisioning system and method for interworking with non-cpm service | 20100325192 | 20101223 |
| A system and method for interworking a Converged-IP Messaging (CPM) service to another messaging service. In particular, the present invention realizes a function of allowing a CPM service's recipient to receive a message sent from another CPM service's sender using a non-CPM service to which the recipient has subscribed. To this end, the present invention uses preference information of a recipient in determining a non-CPM service to be subjected to interworking. In this way, the CPM service can interwork with non-CPM services, contributing to expansion of an area where services can be provided.
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| Method for generating a data block for transmission using a cpm scheme | 20100316166 | 20101216 |
| A method for generating a data block for transmission using a continuous phase modulation scheme is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes inserting payload data in the data block, the payload data having a plurality of payload symbols, each involving an state change in a continuous phase modulation waveform generated from the data block in one of two opposite directions. It may include inserting state compensation data in the data block for cancelling out the state changes, such that the waveform has an end state at the end of the data block equal to a begin state at the beginning of the data block. The state compensation data is determined by determining from the state changes an overall state change caused by the payload data... |
| Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data using satellite channel | 20100316161 | 20101216 |
| A method for transmitting data using a satellite channel includes: channel-encoding bit data using an e-BCH code; interleaving the encoded data; modulating the interleaved data according to a CPM scheme using four symbols; and transmitting the modulated data to a hub station.
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| Frequency domain equalization method for continuous phase modulated signals | 20100316107 | 20101216 |
| A method for frequency domain equalization of a cyclic CPM signal received via a channel is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes representing the received cyclic CPM signal as a matrix model comprising a channel matrix representing influence of the channel, separate from a Laurent pulse matrix and a pseudocoefficient matrix respectively representing Laurent pulses and pseudocoefficients determined by Laurent decomposition of the received cyclic CPM signal. The method may further include applying a channel equalizer on the separate channel matrix and after the equalization. It may further include demodulating the received cyclic CPM signal by the matrix model, the demodulation exploiting known correlation properties of the Laurent pulses and the pseudocoefficients.
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| Method and apparatus for constant envelope modulation | 20100310009 | 20101209 |
| Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for modulating single carrier signals using constant envelope 2-CPM modulation and quasi-constant envelope filtered continuously rotated pseudo-PSK modulation in a wireless communication system.
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| Method and apparatus for continuous phase modulation preamble encoding and decoding | 20100309958 | 20101209 |
| Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for generating single carrier signals with spread-spectrum coded preambles using constant envelope 2-CPM modulation for transmission in a wireless communication system, and for efficient despreading method at a receiver.
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| Method and apparatus for constant envelope demodulation | 20100309959 | 20101209 |
| Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for demodulating CPM modulated signals transmitted in a wired or wireless communication system using a linear modulation model consisting of a linear superposition of time pulses modulated using pseudo-PSK pulses.
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| Methods and materials for detecting gene amplification | 20100297649 | 20101125 |
| This document relates to methods and materials involved in detecting gene amplification in a mammal. For example, methods and materials for detecting amplification at CPM and MDM2 loci to determine the presence or absence of a malignant lipomatous neoplasm in a mammal are provided.
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| Method for storing conversation upon user's request in cpm system, and system thereof | 20100293240 | 20101118 |
| A method for storing a conversation upon a user's real-time request in a Converged-IP Messaging (CPM) service is provided. The method includes storing a conversation in a message storage server on a network or stopping the storage of the conversation upon a user's request. A target that can be stored within a conversation includes a pager mode message, a large message, and media delivered through the session. In this manner, media in the conversation may be limited to media selected by a user.
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| Protein expression system | 20100287670 | 20101111 |
| The inventions is based on an expression enhancer sequence derived from the RNA-2 genome segment of a bipartite RNA virus, in which a target initiation site in the RNA-2 genome segment has been mutated. Deletion of appropriate start codons upstream of the main RNA2 translation initiation can greatly increase in foreign protein accumulation without the need for viral replication. Also provided are methods, vectors and systems, including the ‘hyper-translatable’ Cowpea Mosaic Virus (‘CPMV-HT’) based protein expression system.
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| Simultaneous excitation and acquisition of signal from multiple slices in the rare sequence (multiplex rare) | 20100259260 | 20101014 |
| A method for RARE magnetic resonance imaging comprising slice selective excitation of two or more slices and of one or more nuclei, followed by refocusing of these slices and application of gradient pulses which cause a diversion of the signal into spin echoes and stimulated echoes, is characterized by application of refocusing slice selective RF pulses, which are placed to fulfill the echo-spacing CPMG condition for each slice and by arrangement of gradient pulses which cause the phase accumulated by spins in each slice between two consecutive refocusing RF pulses corresponding to that slice to be equal, thus fulfilling the CPMG phase accumulation condition. Thereby, the obtainable signal can be increased and stabilized.
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| Systems and method for protected memory | 20100250058 | 20100930 |
| Systems and a method for a crash protected memory (CPM) are provided. The CPM includes a housing that includes a wall wherein at least a portion of the wall is at least partially transparent to radio frequency (RF) radiation. The housing includes an interior cavity sealable from an exterior of the housing. The CPM also includes a receiver positioned within the interior of the housing. The receiver is configured to communicatively couple to a transmitter through the at least a portion of the wall. The CPM further includes a memory for storing data related to the operation of a vehicle communicatively coupled to the receiver.
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| Tracking ad unit performance | 20100228623 | 20100909 |
| Methods and computer storage media for tracking and reporting ad unit performance are described. Tags are associated with ad units and may be manually associated and/or extracted from content items to be presented on a webpage associated with an ad unit. Upon receipt of a request for an advertisement to be presented in association with an ad unit, one or more associated tags are also received. Performance of the ad unit may be tracked utilizing the associated tags and one or more performance data elements, for instance, click-through-rate, income generated by the ad unit, visitor data, number of impressions, and expected cost per thousand impressions (eCPM). Reports on the tracked performance may be generated as desired.
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| Mobilization of a complete cells mixture with embryonic like stem cells from the peripheral blood | 20100226894 | 20100909 |
| Disclosed is a method to recover a mixture cell population consisting of a complete profile of progenitor cells including embryonic like stem cells (a “complete progenitor cell mixture” or CPM) from the peripheral blood of an individual by administering to that individual a combination of at least one or more from the category of growth factors and hormones combining with at least one or more from the category of cell fusion inhibitor compounds, and then recovering peripheral blood progenitor cells from said individual. The hormones and growth factors group should include hGH (human growth hormone) with or without erythropoietin (EPO), but specifically without either G-CSF or GM-CSF. The cell fusion inhibitor group should include a CXCR4 antagonist. Also disclosed is a method for using or preserving... |
| Method and apparatus for generating m-ary cpm waveforms from a superposition of pam waveforms | 20100195769 | 20100805 |
| To reflect advantages of a constant phase modulation waveform, the invention provides a pulse amplitude modulated PAM waveform that is a superposition of Q0≦2L−1 PAM component pulses in each symbol interval such that a significant portion of signal energy over each symbol interval is within the Q0 PAM component pulses. The present invention distributes most signal energy in one pulse and progressively lower energies in the remaining Q0−1 pulses of a symbol interval. The Laurent Decomposition is a special case of the present invention, but the present invention exhibits the energy distribution of the Laurent Decomposition in non-binary CPM waveforms and in multi-h (binary and non-binary) CPM waveforms, where h is a modulating index. All energy is distributed among only Q=2L−1 pulses in each symbol interval,... |
| Method for delivering cpm message and server thereof | 20100185741 | 20100722 |
| Disclosed is a method for delivering a message in a converged IP messaging (CPM) server. The message delivery method may include determining whether to reject a CPM message based on the access policy if the CPM message is received; checking a user preference of a target terminal to determine processing of the CPM message if it is determined that the CPM message is not rejected; determining whether to reject, defer or store the CPM message based on the user preference if the target terminal is not registered or in an unreceivable state; storing the CPM message in a queue if it is determined that a transmission of the CPM message is deferred; determining whether to discard or store the CPM message based on the user preference... |
| Method for delivering message based on cpm service and server thereof | 20100185740 | 20100722 |
| A method for delivering a message from a converged IP messaging (CPM) server include: checking registered target terminals that can receive a message from a source terminal based on a user preference; determining whether to deliver a message from the source terminal to the checked target terminal based on the user preference; when the message is determined to be delivered, determining whether to store the message in a message storage server based on the user preference; when the message is determined to be stored, requesting the message storage server to store the message; receiving a response message including information regarding the stored message from the message storage server; and including the information in the message and transmitting the same to the target terminal.
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| Modular avionics system of an aircraft | 20100153684 | 20100617 |
| A modular avionics system includes several cabinets arranged at various locations in an aircraft and interconnected in a network. The cabinets are used for controlling or processing signals from and to sensors, actuators and other systems of the aircraft. The system includes parallel processors, for example transputers. The cabinets comprise at least two core processor modules (CPM1, CPM2) and at least two input/output modules (IOM1, IOM2). The input/output modules (IOM1, IOM2) serve as interfaces to the systems to be controlled, and serve for the control and intermediate storage of the data flowing into and out of the cabinet. Each core processor module (CPM1, CPM2) communicates independently with each IOM module and CPM module by way of links; and in each core processor a number of independent... |
| Method and apparatus for sending instant message disposition notification request and response in a converged-ip messaging service and system thereof | 20100153505 | 20100617 |
| A method is provided for sending an Instant Message Disposition Notification (IMDN) request to a receiving terminal by a sending terminal in a Converged-IP Messaging (CPM) service. The sending terminal generates an instant message to be sent to the receiving terminal, inserts an IMDN request message into the generated instant message, the IMDN request message including a predetermined response limit time, and sends the instant message with the IMDN request message to the receiving terminal through a CPM server.
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| Method and system for controlling session for interworking in converged ip messaging service | 20100138484 | 20100603 |
| Disclosed is a session control method in a Converged Internet Protocol (IP) Messaging (CPM) server for supporting a CPM session between a first client subscribing to a CPM service and a second client not subscribing to the CPM service, the session control method includes, after the CPM session is initiated between the first and second clients through the CPM server and an Interworking Function (IWF), receiving a session modification request message including specific media from the first client; sending the session modification request message including the specific media to the IWF through the initiated CPM session; and receiving a response message from the IWF, the response message including a reason for a rejection of the session modification request message including the specific media.
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| Nuclear magnetic resonance measurement techniques in non-uniform fields | 20100134104 | 20100603 |
| Methods and pulse sequences for facilitating nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements in grossly inhomogeneous fields. Methods and pulse sequences according to the invention may be used to accurately measure variables such as transverse relaxation time, longitudinal relaxation time, and diffusion, without the need for data at long recovery time, thereby allowing for faster measurements. In addition, methods and pulse sequences according to embodiment of the invention may allow simultaneous encoding of information in both the amplitude and the shape of echoes, so as to allow a single-shot measurement of multiple variables, e.g., both transverse relaxation time (from the decay of echo amplitudes) and longitudinal relaxation time (from the echo shape). CPMG detection may be used to overcome the often limited signal-to-noise ratio in grossly inhomogeneous fields.
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| Transmissions with reduced code rate in 8vsb digital television | 20100124287 | 20100520 |
| Procedures performed prior to convolutional interleaving of 8VSB digital television signals restrict the alphabet of symbols in novel methods of generating trellis-coded digital television signals that include more robust symbol coding using a restricted alphabet of symbols selected from a full 8VSB symbol alphabet consisting of −7, −5, −3, −1, +1, +3, +5 and +7 normalized modulation levels superposed on a background modulation level. Certain of these novel procedures generate pseudo-2VSB or P-2VSB robust symbol coding with a restricted alphabet of symbols consisting of −7, −5, +5 and +7 normalized modulation levels superposed on a background modulation level. Others of these novel procedures generate prescribed-coset-pattern-modulation or PCPM robust symbol coding intermixing two restricted alphabets of symbols according to a prescribed pattern. One of the two restricted... |
| Data transmission system and method | 20100111205 | 20100506 |
| Continuous-phase high compaction multicarrier-modulation (CPPC/HC-MCM) according to the present application uses a continuous phase modulation (CPM) technique to prevent an amplitude gap between two continuous signals, thereby improving characteristics of the conventional PC/HC-MCM in terms of effective use of a frequency bandwidth. The CPPC/HC-MCM can achieve a lower bit error rate (BER) for a wide signal-to-noise ratio at a common spectral efficiency of about 0.33 or less, as compared to the conventional unmodulated PC/HC-MCM.
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| Content slots for digital media | 20100088716 | 20100408 |
| A method wherein digital content, distributed on DVD (standard and High Definition variants such as Blue-Ray), CD (Computer Disk), or other digital storage media or downloaded as one or more files or streamed or broadcast is played interspersed with one or more advertising slots (also referred to in this disclosure as just-in-time content slots). Also detailed is method and steps for discovery of advertising slot information and fetching content for each slot by DVD players or end-user equipment that enable just-in-time content slots per this disclosure. Also included is method and steps for managing DVD advertising slot inventory, targeting of advertisements, building and operating advertising network including market place for buying/selling/auctioning advertising spot inventory, making available advertisements for pickup by advertising slot publishers, and tracking of... |
| Shoulder continuous passive motion device | 20100076354 | 20100325 |
| A shoulder continuous passive motion (“CPM”) device is provided. The shoulder CPM has a motor and a drive mechanism configured to move a slidable arm holder linearly back and forth. The motor can move the drive mechanism linearly back and forth. The drive mechanism can be attached to the arm holder. A user can insert at least a portion of his arm into the arm holder, such that the shoulder CPM device moves his arm linearly back and forth, thereby providing therapeutic treatment to the shoulder of the user.
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| Binary continuous phase modulation (cpm) data demodulation receiver | 20100034318 | 20100211 |
| A communications receiver receives a received continuous phase modulation (CPM) signal having an original modulation index of h and includes a filter, a continuous phase reconstructor using phase unwrapping, and a modulation index scaler for generating a reconstructed CPM signal having a scaled modulation index H from the received CPM signal having a small modulation index h, with the scaled modulation index H preferably being greater than the original modulation index h, so that, the transmitted CPM signal occupies a narrow bandwidth, yet, during reception, the reconstructed CPM signal with the high modulation index H can be reliably data demodulated for improved performance with reduced demodulation complexity.
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| Power system for a hybrid fuel cell vehicle that employs a floating base load strategy | 20090297901 | 20091203 |
| A fuel cell system employing a floating base load hybrid strategy for reducing fast voltage transients of a FCPM. A power request signal is applied to an average power calculation processor that calculates the average power requested over a predetermined previous period of time. A weighting function processor provides a weighting function based on the state of charge of an EESS. The power available from the FCPM and the EESS is applied to a power comparison processor. The available power is compared to the power request to provide a difference value between what is currently being provided and what is desired. The difference value is compared to power limit values of the EESS. The output value of this comparison is added to a filtered value to... |
| Voltage island performance/leakage screen monitor for ip characterization | 20090295402 | 20091203 |
| A method is provided for characterizing performance of a chip having at least one voltage island and at least one performance screen ring oscillator (PSRO). An on-chip performance monitor (OCPM) is incorporated on the voltage island. Performance measurements of the voltage island are generated with only the voltage island under power. Performance measurements of the performance screen ring oscillator (PSRO) are generated with only the voltage island under power. Performance measurements of the performance screen ring oscillator (PSRO) is compared to the performance measurements of the on-chip performance monitor (OCPM) to determine a systematic offset due to the voltage island. Performance models are adjusted using the systematic offset due to the voltage island.
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| Scaleable check processing module for a self-service check depositing terminal | 20090283584 | 20091119 |
| A scaleable check processing module (SCPM) is provided for a self-service check depositing terminal. The SCPM comprises a supporting structure. The SCPM further comprises a first configurable mechanism located in the supporting structure and for (i) enabling a pocket module to be disposed at a first location of the supporting structure when the SCPM is to be installed into a first type of self-service check depositing terminal, (ii) enabling a pocket module to be disposed at a second location which is different from the first location of the supporting structure when the SCPM is to be installed into a second type of self-service check depositing terminal which is different from the first type of self-service depositing terminal, and (iii) enabling a pocket module to be disposed... |
| Check processing module for a self-service check depositing terminal | 20090283383 | 20091119 |
| A check processing module (CPM) is provided for a self-service check depositing terminal. The CPM comprises a substantially U-shaped plastic guide including (i) first and second leg portions forming the substantially U-shape, (ii) a surface which forms an opening in the first leg portion, and (ii) a releasing member which is disposed on the second leg portion. The CPM further comprises a shaft assembly including (i) a plastic shaft having opposite end portions and a central portion between the opposite end portions, (ii) a number of drive rollers disposed on the central portion, (iii) a first plastic race bearing attached to one end portion of the plastic shaft and disposed in the opening of the plastic guide, and (iv) a second plastic race bearing attached to... |
| Method, a device and a system for converging ip message | 20090279455 | 20091112 |
| A method, a device and a system for converging IP message are disclosed. The invention includes the following step: the CPM server that receives a CPM message determines its service type based on the CPM message and performs a corresponding signaling control, and processes the CPM message content based on the process flow corresponding with the service type; forwardly, the invention includes the following step: the CPM server that receives a CPM message determines its service type based on the CPM message, and determines the service server which can process this service based on the service type, and converses the CPM message to the message or/and session request corresponding with the service server, and transmits it to the service server to process, and after the CPM... |
| Single sideband and quadrature multiplexed continuous phase modulation | 20090279422 | 20091112 |
| A class of bandwidth reduction techniques are used develop a broad class of modulation types collectively called SSB-FM. These signals can be used to construct communication systems that provide bandwidth-normalized performance gains of 10 dB or more when compared to popular prior art modulation methods. An aspect of the invention involves mapping trellis paths in a complex signal space onto corresponding real-valued trellis signals with desirable spectral properties. The invention can be used map continuous phase modulated (CPM) signals onto simpler amplitude-modulated trellis signals having double the channel capacity of prior art CPM signals. Multi-amplitude signaling and frequency division multiplexing may also be incorporated to further accommodate more information per symbol.
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| Method, a device and a system for converging ip message | 20090279455 | 20091112 |
| A method, a device and a system for converging IP message are disclosed. The invention includes the following step: the CPM server that receives a CPM message determines its service type based on the CPM message and performs a corresponding signaling control, and processes the CPM message content based on the process flow corresponding with the service type; forwardly, the invention includes the following step: the CPM server that receives a CPM message determines its service type based on the CPM message, and determines the service server which can process this service based on the service type, and converses the CPM message to the message or/and session request corresponding with the service server, and transmits it to the service server to process, and after the CPM... |
| Single sideband and quadrature multiplexed continuous phase modulation | 20090279422 | 20091112 |
| A class of bandwidth reduction techniques are used develop a broad class of modulation types collectively called SSB-FM. These signals can be used to construct communication systems that provide bandwidth-normalized performance gains of 10 dB or more when compared to popular prior art modulation methods. An aspect of the invention involves mapping trellis paths in a complex signal space onto corresponding real-valued trellis signals with desirable spectral properties. The invention can be used map continuous phase modulated (CPM) signals onto simpler amplitude-modulated trellis signals having double the channel capacity of prior art CPM signals. Multi-amplitude signaling and frequency division multiplexing may also be incorporated to further accommodate more information per symbol.
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| Method of forming an ohmic layer and method of forming a metal wiring of a semiconductor device using the same | 20090233439 | 20090917 |
| A metal organic precursor represented by a formula of R1-CpML is provided onto a substrate having a conductive pattern including silicon. Here, R1 is an alkyl group substituent of Cp, R1 including methyl, ethyl, propyl, pentamethyl, pentaethyl, diethyl, dimethyl or dipropyl, Cp is cyclopentadienyl, M includes nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), titanium (Ti), platinum (Pt) zirconium (Zr) or ruthenium (Ru), and L is at least one ligand, the at least one ligand including a carbonyl. A deposition process is performed using the metal organic precursor to form a preliminary metal silicide layer and a metal layer on the substrate. The preliminary metal silicidation layer is formed on the conductive pattern. The preliminary metal silicide layer is transformed into a metal silicide layer.
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| Method of forming an ohmic layer and method of forming a metal wiring of a semiconductor device using the same | 20090233439 | 20090917 |
| A metal organic precursor represented by a formula of R1-CpML is provided onto a substrate having a conductive pattern including silicon. Here, R1 is an alkyl group substituent of Cp, R1 including methyl, ethyl, propyl, pentamethyl, pentaethyl, diethyl, dimethyl or dipropyl, Cp is cyclopentadienyl, M includes nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), titanium (Ti), platinum (Pt) zirconium (Zr) or ruthenium (Ru), and L is at least one ligand, the at least one ligand including a carbonyl. A deposition process is performed using the metal organic precursor to form a preliminary metal silicide layer and a metal layer on the substrate. The preliminary metal silicidation layer is formed on the conductive pattern. The preliminary metal silicide layer is transformed into a metal silicide layer.
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| Bipartite system, method and composition for the constitutive and inducible expression of high levels of foreign proteins in plants | 20090181460 | 20090716 |
| This invention comprises a combined transgene/virus vector system for the expression of heterologous proteins in plants. While exemplified with respect to the bipartite RNA plant virus, Cowpect mosaic virus (CPMV), other bipartite viral systems may be used to advantage according to the method, system and composition described in detail herein.
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| Multi-symbol noncoherent cpm detector having a trellis structure and a lock detector therefor | 20090175384 | 20090709 |
| Multi-symbol non-coherent continuous phase modulation (CPM) detectors having a trellis structure, methods of continuous phase detection using a trellis structure, and trellis-based lock detectors and methods for digitally modulated signals are described. The continuous phase modulation detector includes receiver, observation, memory, and adjustment portions. The receiver has a trellis structure and is adapted for receiving digitally modulated signals having a generally continuous phase. The observation portion is adapted for performing multi-symbol observations on received digitally modulated signals and the memory is adapted for storing historic observation data corresponding to multi-symbol observations performed by the observation portion. The adjustment portion is adapted for selectively adjusting the receiver in accordance with stored historic observation data. A trellis-based lock detector computes a global survivor for consecutive time indexes as... |
| Control system for production machine | 20090171476 | 20090702 |
| A system for controlling cyclic production machines (CPMs) includes a control processor linked to a plurality of controllers. One or more controllers, some of which may also serve as controllers of dispensing and dosing devices feeding the CPM with materials, are coupled to a CPM. An operator interface supporting one or more user stations provides for displaying data to a user. Each controller is linked at least to a timing unit of a respective CPM. One or more sensors whose signals provide indications as to the working parameters of the CPM are further linked to a controller. Gathered signals are temporarily stored in respective controllers to be further transferred to, processed and stored in, the control processor. Working parameters are associated with characteristic profiles and/or statistics... |
| Document diverter apparatus for use in a check processing module of a self-service check depositing terminal | 20090159660 | 20090625 |
| A document diverter apparatus is provided for use in a check processing module (CPM) of a self-service check depositing terminal. The apparatus comprises a first member which can be (i) moved between a first position and a second position when the CPM is configured to operate in a first mode of operation, (ii) moved between the second position and a third position when the CPM is configured to operate in a second mode of operation, and (iii) constrained to be in the second position when the CPM is configured to operate in a third mode of operation. The apparatus further comprises a second member which can be (i) disposed in a first position to configure the CPM to be operate in the first mode of operation,... |
| Document diverter apparatus for use in a check processing module of a self-service check depositing terminal | 20090159660 | 20090625 |
| A document diverter apparatus is provided for use in a check processing module (CPM) of a self-service check depositing terminal. The apparatus comprises a first member which can be (i) moved between a first position and a second position when the CPM is configured to operate in a first mode of operation, (ii) moved between the second position and a third position when the CPM is configured to operate in a second mode of operation, and (iii) constrained to be in the second position when the CPM is configured to operate in a third mode of operation. The apparatus further comprises a second member which can be (i) disposed in a first position to configure the CPM to be operate in the first mode of operation,... |
| Blade pitch driving apparatus for wind driven generator | 20090155075 | 20090618 |
| A blade pitch driving apparatus of a wind-driven generator and a driving method therefor are adapted to receive an external electrical power and impel a blade toward a corresponding pitch angle according to a pitch command. The apparatus includes an UPS, a permanent magnet synchronous motor drive (PMSM drive), an AC pitch motor (ACPM) and a hub controller. The hub controller normally switches the external power to the PMSM drive, receives the pitch command and control the ACPM to impel the blade toward the corresponding pitch angle. When the PMSM drive fails or the external electrical power is interrupted, the hub controller switches the electrical power of the UPS to the ACPM and controls the blade being impelled toward a feathered position.
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| Continuous phase modulation encoder for wireless networks | 20090147669 | 20090611 |
| Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus for use in a wireless transmitter may include a phase encoder adapted to generate a continuous time signal based on a symbol and a corresponding modulation index for a current symbol interval and one or more previous symbol intervals and based on a continuous phase modulation (CPM) phase response function, a filter and symbol-rate sampler adapted to filter and then symbol rate sample the continuous time signal to generate a symbol-rate statistic that is representative of the continuous time signal for each of the symbol intervals; a mapping circuit adapted to map each of the plurality of symbol-rate statistics to a corresponding constant modulus CPM symbol, and a transmitter circuit adapted to transmit... |
| Methods and device for fast creation of fluid interfaces and use of this device for determination of liquid-liquid and liquid-gas interfacial properties | 20090133480 | 20090528 |
| a glass cuvette with optical windows, used as a container for the outer fluid phase.
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| Method of synthesis of morpholino oligomers | 20090131632 | 20090521 |
| Improved methods are described for solid-phase synthesis of morpholino oligomers, in which a protected morpholino ring nitrogen is deprotected between coupling steps using a heterocyclic amine salt in a trifluoroethanol-containing solvent, where the salt is a salt of a heterocyclic amine, having a pKa in the range of 1-4 in its protonated form, with an acid selected from a sulfonic acid, trifluoroacetic acid, and hydrochloric acid. Examples are 3-chloropyridinium methanesulfonate (CPM) and 4-cyanopyridinium trifluoroacetate (CYTFA).
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| Techniques to generate constant envelope multicarrier transmission for wireless networks | 20090109835 | 20090430 |
| Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus for use in a wireless transmitter may include a continuous phase modulation (CPM) sample generator configured to generate a group of constant envelope CPM modulated signal samples, a Fourier transform block configured to perform a Fourier transform on the group of constant envelope signal samples to generate an initial group of Fourier coefficients, a zero insertion block configured to generate an expanded group of Fourier coefficients by inserting one or more zeros in the initial group of Fourier coefficients, and an inverse Fourier transform block configured to perform an inverse Fourier transform on the expanded group of Fourier coefficients to generate a group of constant envelope time-domain samples and to map the constant... |
| Storage area network (san) forecasting in a heterogeneous environment | 20090077340 | 20090319 |
| The present invention provides an approach for SAN forecasting in a heterogeneous environment. Specifically, under the present invention capacity data on the heterogeneous environment is gathered. Capacity management techniques will then be used to analyze the SAN utilization, identify growth trends and patterns. Proactively, plans are made to account for these changes. Thereafter, a Capacity Planning Margin (CPM) will be applied to the forecast to reflect actual customer usage. The CPM adjusted forecasts will then be reviewed. Then, the SAN environment can be monitored by comparing actual vs. planned and return to adjust the forecast accordingly.
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| Mobile terminal and message transmitting/receiving method for adaptive converged ip messaging | 20090052455 | 20090226 |
| A mobile terminal and message transmitting/receiving method are disclosed for adaptive converged IP messaging. The mobile terminal supporting converged IP messaging (CPM) converts a CPM message into an adaptive converged message and transmits the adaptive converged message. Upon reception, a received message is converted into a CPM message according to a message identifier.
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| Slip-stop device for continuous passive motion machines | 20090032032 | 20090205 |
| An article and method for preventing a continuous passive motion (CPM) device from moving out of position or alignment that include a holding member adapted to pass around a portion of the CPM device and an anchoring member coupled with the holding member for retaining the CPM device holding member in position. The anchoring member is adapted to be placed under the user of the device and held fast by the weight of the user, thereby assuring secure control of the CPM device position by the user.
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| Ambulatory traction | 20090030359 | 20090129 |
| A device and method for applying intermittent passive traction (IPT) that includes an initial phase followed by a sustained traction phase and finally a relaxation phase. During the first phase of IPT, the spinal elements are placed under gentle traction. This period of time reduces the normal forces across the vertebral bodies, facet joints, paraspinal musculature, etc. The second phase holds the spine in sustained traction, further reducing the forces across the spinal elements, encouraging natural healing to occur and allowing the muscles a period of relaxation. The third phase includes the gradual reduction of traction. During this final phase, the normal forces across the spine are reestablished as the IPT device slowly releases traction. The method resolves many of the most limiting problems associated with... |
| Adaptive execution frequency control method for enhanced instruction throughput | 20090019265 | 20090115 |
| A method, system and processor for adaptively and selectively controlling the instruction execution frequency of a data processor. Processing logic or a software compiler determines when a number of first-type instructions, requiring longer execution latency, are scheduled to be executed. The logic/compiler then triggers the CPM unit to automatically switch the execution frequency of the instruction processor from a first frequency that is optimal for processing regular-type instructions to a second, pre-established lower frequency that is optimal for processing the first-type instructions, to enable more efficient execution and higher execution throughput of the number of first-type operations within the processor. When the first-type instructions have completed execution, the processor's instruction execution frequency is returned to the first optimal frequency.
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| Preferred cost bidding for online advertising | 20080255922 | 20081016 |
| In an online advertising system, preferred cost bidding allows advertisers to specify a preferred “average” cost target (e.g., cost-per-click (CPC), cost per thousand impressions (CPM)), rather than a “maximum” cost target (e.g., maximum CPC, CPM). The system attempts to bring the advertiser's overall advertising cost as close as possible to the advertiser's specified average cost, using an iterative process (e.g., a feedback loop) that updates bids for keywords using historical performance data for the key words. In some implementations, a bid is automatically adjusted in an adaptive way to compensate for natural changes in fluctuations of the market using historical performance data to compute a bid that is likely to result in an average cost (per click) that is close to the advertiser's preferred average target... |
| Generic, reduced state, maximum likelihood decoder | 20080178063 | 20080724 |
| A decoder includes at least one programming input for a plurality of programmable reduced-state trellis parameters. A programmable device is connected to the at least one programming input and implements a reduced-state maximum likelihood decoder that is operable for processing a continuous phase modulated (CPM) signal and returning up to N bits that were transmitted based on a maximum likelihood and current winning super-state and corresponding survivor full-state. The programmable device calculates the path metrics for every super-state and determines a best path based on the reduced-state trellis parameters.
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| System and method for evaluating callback functionality in a satellite television network | 20080168517 | 20080710 |
| A combination of new hardware at the subscriber site, hardware and services at the satellite broadcasting center and new installation procedures provide a cost-effective approach for verifying “callback” functionality. The required test and monitoring hardware may be provided as an external test CAM and call progress monitor (CPM) or integrated into the IRD. The satellite broadcast center is provided with a call responder & data test system (CRDTS) that is set up to automatically receive and evaluate test calls over a back channel and a call recording system (CRS) that records the test results and notifies the billing center of a successful installation. The installer installs the dish and IRD, verifies “callback” functionality by placing a test call that is evaluated by the CRDTS, and then... |
| Hybrid advertisement pricing system and method | 20080154797 | 20080626 |
| A hybrid advertisement pricing system and method for determining the price of an advertisement on the Internet is disclosed. The system includes a CPM (Cost-Per-Million impressions) module, a CPC (Cost-Per-Click) module, a price accounting module and a controller. The CPM module is configured to compute a CPM price for an exposure of an advertisement. The price accounting module is configured to compute the price of the advertisement. The CPC module is configured to compute a CPC price for a click on an advertisement based on the CPM price and the CPC price. The controller is configured to control operations of the CPM module, the CPC module and the price accounting module. As such, it is possible to determine the price of an advertisement by computing the... |
| Method and system for managing message threads in converged ip messaging service | 20080123686 | 20080529 |
| A mechanism to enable multiple message threads management in the context of the Converged IP Messaging (CPM) service and in the context of CPM inter-working with SMS is provided. A CPM user can simply start a message-based conversation with another CPM or Short Message Service (SMS) user without explicitly establishing a session beforehand. All messages that belong to a given conversation are displayed in the corresponding conversational view (i.e. window) in the CPM user device, even if the conversation is stopped and restarted at a later time, and even if there are multiple message threads available (currently active or stored) in the CPM device. Message structures and behavior of the CPM system elements to enable the functionalities above as well as a mechanism makes the message... |
| Demand-assigned multiple access (dama) communication device and associated acquisition methods | 20080123779 | 20080529 |
| The communications terminal and acquisition method is for use with Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM) and Phase Shift Keying (PSK) modulation-type signals, each modulation-type signal having a respective preamble phasing sequence. The communications terminal may include a wireless communications device to receive a modulated signal having one of the CPM and PSK modulation types, and having a symbol rate. A controller may be included to cooperate with the wireless communications device to perform a transform process, such as a Fourier Transform (FT) process, on the received modulated signal to detect the modulation type and the symbol rate of the received modulated signal based upon the preamble phasing sequence. Carrier phase and frequency of the received modulated signal may be estimated based upon bin amplitudes. Also, symbol timing... |
| Qm-cpm modems with higher order signaling | 20080118002 | 20080522 |
| A quadrature-multiplexed continuous phase modulation (QM-CPM) signal is made up of the real parts of two underlying CPM signals whose information content can be recovered from just their real parts. The real parts of two such signals are I/Q multiplexed and transmitted onto a single channel to approximately double the bits/Hz of the underlying CPM signals, while maintaining the same or similar minimum distance. A class of QM-CPFSK (QM-continuous phase frequency shift keyed) signals are presented that use binary signaling but more phase states, and M2-ary QM-CPFSK signals are derived from constant envelope M-ary CPFSK signals. M2-ary multi-amplitude CPFSK signaling schemes are constructed that maintain the same distance as known multi-amplitude CPFSK schemes, but more than double the bandwidth efficiency in bits/Hz. In addition to these... |
| Water-absorbing resin composition | 20080071004 | 20080320 |
| A water-absorbing resin composition showing suppressed dusting of an antimicrobial agent and having an antimicrobial activity. A water-absorbing resin composition which contains a water-absorbing resin and an antimicrobial agent comprising an inorganic compound carrying an antimicrobial metal characterized by showing a dusting degree of 100 CPM or less. This water-absorbing resin composition is appropriately usable in sanitary goods such as paper diapers, sanitary pads, incontinence pads, urine-absorbing materials for pet animals, structural materials such as packings, freshness-preserving materials for foods such as drip-absorbers and cooling agents, agricultural/horticultural goods such as water-retention agents for soil and so on.
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| Programmable continuous phase modulation (cpm) decoder and associated methods | 20080072125 | 20080320 |
| The programmable decoder, such as a Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) decoder (e.g. a Viterbi decoder) may include a programming input for a plurality of programmable trellis parameters, and a programmable device, such as an FPGA, connected to the programming input and implementing a continuous phase modulation (CPM) decoder including at least one trellis structure defined based upon the plurality of programmable trellis parameters. The plurality of programmable trellis parameters may include a number of trellis structures, a number of trellis states for each trellis structure, and a number of branches for each trellis state. Also, the trellis structure may include a reverse-state trellis structure.
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| Programmable trellis decoder and associated methods | 20080072126 | 20080320 |
| The programmable decoder, such as a Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) decoder (e.g. a Viterbi decoder) may include a programming input for a plurality of programmable trellis parameters, and a programmable device, such as an FPGA, connected to the programming input and implementing a trellis decoder including at least one trellis structure defined based upon the plurality of programmable trellis parameters. The plurality of programmable trellis parameters may include trellis connectivity information for trellis stages, active and inactive states for each trellis stage, a trellis branch transition data value and a metric index for trellis branch transition. Also, the trellis structure may include a reverse-state trellis structure. The programmable trellis decoder can decode convolutional codes, trellis coded modulation (TCM), ISI channels and CPM waveforms.
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| Method, device, computer program product and apparatus providing a multi-dimensional cpm waveform | 20080056407 | 20080306 |
| A method is described for generating a M-D CPM waveform as a constant envelope, continuous phase signal capable of conveying a plurality of information symbols per symbol interval. Additionally, it provides for reducing the phase state space of the M-D CPM waveform, for reducing a number of trellis states required for demodulation of the M-D CPM waveform, and for implementing generalized tilted phase decomposition to reduce the cardinality of the phase state space of the multi-dimensional CPM waveform by a factor of 2. A device, computer program product and apparatus are also described.
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| Event driven diagramming method for project planning | 20080052139 | 20080228 |
| An instantaneous, event driven diagramming method is provided which identifies discrete events within various activities performed during the course of a project and interrelates such events, where applicable, according to the timing and/or functional relationship between such events. An event driven diagram generated in accordance with the method of this invention may be used with CPM, and may be read by a computer employing standard algorithms to determine the critical path of the project.
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| Nuclear magnetic resonance measurement techniques in non-uniform fields | 20080024128 | 20080131 |
| Methods and pulse sequences for facilitating nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements in grossly inhomogeneous fields. Methods and pulse sequences according to the invention may be used to accurately measure variables such as transverse relaxation time, longitudinal relaxation time, and diffusion, without the need for data at long recovery time, thereby allowing for faster measurements. In addition, methods and pulse sequences according to embodiment of the invention may allow simultaneous encoding of information in both the amplitude and the shape of echoes, so as to allow a single-shot measurement of multiple variables, e.g., both transverse relaxation time (from the decay of echo amplitudes) and longitudinal relaxation time (from the echo shape). CPMG detection may be used to overcome the often limited signal-to-noise ratio in grossly inhomogeneous fields.
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| Fixed deterministic post-backoff for cyclic prioritized multiple access (cpma) contention-free sessions | 20080013508 | 20080117 |
| A cyclic prioritized multiple access (CPMA) method is disclosed which includes Fixed Deterministic Post-Backoff. Fixed deterministic post-backoff reduces conflicts between access points of overlapping cells. Contention-free sessions (CFSs) can be generated, one from each overlapping cell. Each active access point engages in a fixed deterministic post-backoff. A fixed deterministic backoff delay (Bkoff times a fixed number of idle time slots) is used by all access points, with the value of Bkoff being greater than the number of overlapping cells. The Bkoff should be large enough to enable the traffic that needs to be accommodated by the channel. Each access point has a backoff timer that is counted down using the shortest interframe space possible, typically the Priority Interframe Space (PIFS). A contention-free session (CFS) is initiated... |
| Preemptive packet for maintaining contiguity in cyclic prioritized multiple access (cpma) contention-free sessions | 20080013509 | 20080117 |
| An access point transmits a preemptive peg packet when it has no data to transmit in order to maintain the contiguity of its transmission timing position with respect to the timing position of other contention-free sessions (CFS) transmitted by other access points in an existing, periodic sequence. The cyclic prioritized multiple access (CPMA) method establishes the transmission timing position of contention-free sessions (CFS) between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells contending for the same medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations. If an access point has no traffic, it will transmit a short, preemptive pegging packet and reset its backoff timer. In this manner, no gaps longer than the distributed coordination function (DCF) Interframe Space (DIFS) are left idle. This prevents other... |
| Staggered startup for cyclic prioritized multiple access (cpma) contention-free sessions | 20080013515 | 20080117 |
| A staggered startup method and system for a cyclic prioritized multiple access (CPMA) system reduce interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells contending for the same medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations. A first member station in the first cell coordinates a periodic sequence of first contention-free sessions. Each contention-free session includes multiple bursts with other member stations in the first cell. The first member station retains control of the medium by using interframe spaces sufficiently short between the bursts so that the multiple bursts appear to contending stations to be a single instance of activity in the medium during a session until an end of a session. A second member station in the second cell listens to the activity... |
| Fast spin echo mri method compatible with cpmg violation | 20080009701 | 20080110 |
| In preferred embodiments, a fast spin echo imaging technique is provided that is insensitive to violations of the Carr Purcell Meiboom Gill (CPMG) condition. Diffusion gradients disrupt the CPMG condition, and, hence, the present fast spin echo method is compatible with diffusion measurements and diffusion weighted imaging. The preferred embodiments of the present technique involve splitting of spin echoes into echo pairs. Spin echoes are split by adjustment (in magnitude or duration) of an initial readout gradient pulse. A train of echo pairs is captured. A first image is constructed using the first echoes of each pair. Also, a second image is constructed using the second echoes of each pair. Hybrid radial Cartesian methods are used for constructing the first and second images. The first and... |
| Liquid crystalline polymer cpmposition and use thereof | 20070293633 | 20071220 |
| The present invention provides a liquid crystalline polymer composition comprising (A) a polymer including units of formula (I), and units of formula (II) and/or units of formula (III), the units of formula (I) being included in 15-80% by mol, based on the total units [(I)+(II)+(III)]; and (B) a polymer (B) including units of formula (IV), formula (V) and the formula (VI), each of units being included in 30-80% by mol, 10-35% by mol and 10-35% by mol, respectively, based on the total units [(IV)+(V)+(VI)], the component (B) being included in 5-80% by weight based on the total weight of the components (A) and (B); wherein (I) —(VI) are —OC—Ar1-0-, —O—Ar2—O—, —OC—Ar3—CO—, —OC—Ar4—O—, —O—Ar5—X— and —OC—Ar6—CO—, respectively.
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| Message-to-wap link for content and advertising | 20070294725 | 20071220 |
| A system for enhancing advertising revenue in a mobile communications environment includes a mobile communications device having a display screen and a wireless Internet enabled interface configured to facilitate the display of graphics on the display screen, and a natural language search service configured to receive a query from a user via the mobile device in natural language with service returning the direct answer and not links. In response to a user query from a mobile device the search service returns an appropriate response to the user via the mobile device. The response integrates an answer to the user's query with relevant advertisements in a single or same display image. The advertisements can include graphic and/or multimedia information; the presentation of such graphic information to the... |
| Low complexity method and apparatus to generate a symmetric-periodic continuous phase modulation (cpm) waveform | 20070258512 | 20071108 |
| The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus to generate a sequence of symbols to be transmitted, comprising transmitting a block of symbols having data symbols and redundancy symbols, the redundancy symbols being generated based on the data symbols, a first part of the redundancy symbols being transmitted as a prefix of the block, a second part of the redundancy symbols being transmitted as a postfix of the block and a third part of the redundancy symbols being transmitted as an intermediate part of the block between the prefix part and postfix part. The first part of the redundancy symbols may be generated from the symbols that are transmitted at the end of a data portion of the block, the second part of... |
| Means for removing unwanted ion from an ion transport system and mass spectrometer | 20070228268 | 20071004 |
| The present invention relates to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) in which a collision cell is employed to selectively remove unwanted artifact ions from an ion beam by causing them to interact with a reagent gas. The present invention provides a first evacuated chamber (6) at high vacuum located between an expansion chamber (3) and a second evacuated chamber (20) containing the collision cell (24). The first evacuated chamber (6) includes a first ion optical device (17). The collision cell (24) contains a second ion optical device (25). The provision of the first evacuated chamber (6) reduces the gas load on the collision cell (24), by minimising the residual pressure within the collision cell (24) that is attributable to the gas load from the plasma... |
| Cpm pad with fiber filling | 20070197988 | 20070823 |
| A patient pad for a continuous passive motion machine is provided with an inner fabric layer of wicking material, an outer fabric layer, and a fiber fill layer sandwiched between the inner and outer fabric layers. Quilting ties the fabric layers and fiber fill layer together. The fiber fill layer is pleated in an accordion arrangement to provide for resilient compressibility. The fiber material provides aeration and breathability for patient comfort.
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| Comprehensive particulate matter measurement system and method for using the same | 20070180936 | 20070809 |
| A comprehensive particulate matter measurement system (CPMMS) that measures accurate mass size distribution of particulate matter (PM) in ambient air, and a method to measure the accurate mass size distribution of PM are provided. The CPMMS includes a mass-based PM sampler, a particle sizing device, and an analysis system that manipulates data sent from the mass-based PM sampler and the particle sizing device to accurately measure mass size distribution of PM. The mass-based PM sampler measures total mass concentration of PM, and the particle sizing device measures size or volume size distribution of PM. Estimated total mass concentration is obtained from the size distribution predicting an assumed density of PM, and is compared with the actual total mass concentration measured by the mass-based PM sampler. A... |
| Cloning, sequencing and expression of a comamonas cyclopentanone 1,2-monooxygenase-encoding gene in escherichia coli | 20070178558 | 20070802 |
| Cyclopentanone 1,2-monooxygenase (CPMO) from Comamonas (previously Pseudomonas) sp. strain NCIMB 9872 carries out the second step of a degradation pathway that allows the bacterium to use cyclopentanol as a sole carbon source for growth. In the present invention there is reported the localization of the CPMO-encoding gene (cpnB) on a 4.3-kb SphI fragment, the determination of its sequence. The 550-amino acid CPMO polypeptide (Mr, 62,111) encoded by the gene was found to have 36.5% identity with the sequence of cyclohexanone 1,2-monooxygenase (CHMO) of Acinetobacter sp. strain NCIMB 9871. The 62-kDa CPMO was expressed in E. coli as an IPTG-inducible protein.
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| Apparatus and method for real time and real flow-rates measurements of oil and water cuts from oil production | 20070164737 | 20070719 |
| A inventive flow-meter uses a measuring method which is based on the passage time of fluid molecules in a single sensor, without using any magnetic field gradient for the measurement of said fluid mean velocity. This method consists of the ultrafast irradiation of hydrogen nuclei from fluid molecules through pulses which are repeated every short time intervals, following a Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) type sequence.
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| Method and system for allocation of channelisation codes in a code division multiple access system | 20070147309 | 20070628 |
| Downlink channels within an implementation of a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system, e.g. a Wideband CDMA system, are allocated to channelisation codes in a primary or secondary code tree, each tree having its own scrambling code. During Compressed Mode (CPM), channels which need reallocation during CPM are reallocated to one of the alternative code trees related to the primary or secondary code trees, depending on their original channelisation code in the primary or secondary code tree. According to the invention a method and a system are presented where a channel, which needs to be allocated a channelisation code, is determined on its type of CPM method to be deployed, where a channelisation code is selected according to a code-allocation strategy where there is a channelisation... |
| Floating base load hybrid strategy for a hybrid fuel cell vehicle to increase the durability of the fuel cell system | 20070141416 | 20070621 |
| A fuel cell system employing a floating base load hybrid strategy for reducing fast voltage transients of a FCPM. A power request signal is applied to an average power calculation processor that calculates the average power requested over a predetermined previous period of time. A weighting function processor provides a weighting function based on the state of charge of an EESS. The power available from the FCPM and the EESS is applied to a power comparison processor. The available power is compared to the power request to provide a difference value between what is currently being provided and what is desired. The difference value is compared to power limit values of the EESS. The output value of this comparison is added to a filtered value to... |
| Means for removing unwanted ion from an ion transport system and mass spectrometer | 20070096022 | 20070503 |
| The present invention relates to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) in which a collision cell is employed to selectively remove unwanted artifact ions from an ion beam by causing them to interact with a reagent gas. The present invention provides a first evacuated chamber (6) at high vacuum located between an expansion chamber (3) and a second evacuated chamber (20) containing the collision cell (24). The first evacuated chamber (6) includes a first ion optical device (17). The collision cell (24) contains a second ion optical device (25). The provision of the first evacuated chamber (6) reduces the gas load on the collision cell (24), by minimising the residual pressure within the collision cell (24) that is attributable to the gas load from the plasma... |
| Single sideband and quadrature multiplexed continuous phase modulation | 20070092018 | 20070426 |
| A class of bandwidth reduction techniques are used develop a broad class of modulation types collectively called SSB-FM. These signals can be used to construct communication systems that provide bandwidth-normalized performance gains of 10 dB or more when compared to popular prior art modulation methods. An aspect of the invention involves mapping trellis paths in a complex signal space onto corresponding real-valued trellis signals with desirable spectral properties. The invention can be used map continuous phase modulated (CPM) signals onto simpler amplitude-modulated trellis signals having double the channel capacity of prior art CPM signals. Multi-amplitude signaling and frequency division multiplexing may also be incorporated to further accommodate more information per symbol.
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| Hydrogenation catalyst for hydrocarbon oil and process for hydrogenation using the catalyst | 20070084753 | 20070419 |
| A hydrogenation catalyst for a hydrocarbon oil, includes an inorganic porous support composed of at least the oxides of aluminum, phosphorus, and silicon, and supporting at least one active metal selected from the metals of Group 8 of the periodic table, at least one active metal selected from the metals of Group 6 of the periodic table, and phosphorus, the phosphorus chemical shift value of the inorganic support determined by 31P-CPMAS-NMR having the peak within the range of 0 to −20 ppm. The catalyst can achieve an extremely high level of hydrogenation wherein the hydrocarbon is decreased in sulfur content to 10 ppm by mass or less and in nitrogen content to 3 ppm by mass or less.
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| Transmissions with reduced code rate in 8vsb digital television | 20070079224 | 20070405 |
| Procedures performed prior to convolutional interleaving of 8VSB digital television signals restrict the alphabet of symbols in novel methods of generating trellis-coded digital television signals that include more robust symbol coding using a restricted alphabet of symbols selected from a full 8VSB symbol alphabet consisting of −7, −5, −3, −1, +1, +3, +5 and +7 normalized modulation levels superposed on a background modulation level. Certain of these novel procedures generate pseudo-2VSB or P-2VSB robust symbol coding with a restricted alphabet of symbols consisting of −7, −5, +5 and +7 normalized modulation levels superposed on a background modulation level. Others of these novel procedures generate prescribed-coset-pattern-modulation or PCPM robust symbol coding intermixing two restricted alphabets of symbols according to a prescribed pattern. One of the two restricted... |
| System and method for obtaining accurate symbol rate and carrier phase, frequency, and timing acquisition for minimum shift keyed waveform | 20070053459 | 20070308 |
| The present invention relates generally to communication systems, both wired and wireless, employing a continuous phase modulation (“CPM”) waveform with a minimum shift keying (“MSK”) preamble. The present inventive system and method uses information from contiguous Fourier Transforms taken on contiguous data blocks to determine baud rate, phase, frequency offset, and bit timing of the CPM waveform or can be used to determine the frequency of continuous wave waveform. More particularly, the inventive system and method is applicable to the military satellite communications UHF frequency band for deciding whether a signal of interest is.
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| Iterative non-coherent cpm decoder | 20070030926 | 20070208 |
| The invention relates to a method of non-coherent decoding an encoded CPM signal received by a wireless receiver, and a CPM decoder implementing the method, wherein the signal is generated by a transmitter using a serial concatenation of an outer encoder, an interleaver and an M-ary CPM modulator, and may have a frequency-hopping RF carrier. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes iteratively decoding the received signal by first recursively finding a sub-set of dominant sequences of CPM symbols that maximize a path metric for one hop interval using a non-coherent CPM detector, determining on the basis of this sub-set a sequence of soft inner bits, decoding these soft inner bits with an outer decoder, and using extrinsic information for the soft inner bits provided by... |
| Fast t1 measurement by using driven equilibrium | 20070032956 | 20070208 |
| An amplitude of an echo signal in a driven equilibrium (DE) pulse group is used for determination of a longitudinal relaxation time T1 of an earth formation. DE pulse groups followed by a CPMG sequence can be used for estimating both T1 and a transverse relaxation time T2 within one fast measurement.
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| Method and apparatus for generating m-ary cpm waveforms from a superposition of pam waveforms | 20070002986 | 20070104 |
| To reflect advantages of a constant phase modulation waveform, the invention provides a pulse amplitude modulated PAM waveform that is a superposition of Q0≦2L-1 PAM component pulses in each symbol interval such that a significant portion of signal energy over each symbol interval is within the Q0 PAM component pulses. The present invention distributes most signal energy in one pulse and progressively lower energies in the remaining Q0−1 pulses of a symbol interval. The Laurent Decomposition is a special case of the present invention, but the present invention exhibits the energy distribution of the Laurent Decomposition in non-binary CPM waveforms and in multi-h (binary and non-binary) CPM waveforms, where h is a modulating index. All energy is distributed among only Q=2L-1 pulses in each symbol interval,... |
| Multi-symbol noncoherent cpm detector | 20060291592 | 20061228 |
| Three receivers are presented for the general case of noncoherent detection of multi-h continuous phase modulation. All three receivers yield performance gains using multi-symbol observations. The first is an existing receiver which has previously been applied to PCM/FM and is now applied to the Advanced Range Telemetry Tier II waveform. The second and third receivers are presented for the first time in this paper. The existing noncoherent receiver is found to perform poorly (and with high complexity) for the Advanced Range Telemetry Tier II case. For single-symbol observations, the new receivers outperform conventional FM demodulation for both telemetry waveforms, and for multi-symbol observation lengths their performance approaches that of the optimal coherent receiver. The performance is evaluated using computer simulations. Receiver performance is also evaluated using... |
| Hydraulic pressure actuator and continuous manual athletic device using the same | 20060249017 | 20061109 |
| A hydraulic pressure actuator having an inner tube and a mesh sleeve covering the outer periphery of the inner tube and longitudinally extendable by pressure fluid fed into the inner tube, wherein a low friction body formed in an elastic cylindrical body by knitting fine fibers is disposed between the inner tube and the mesh sleeve, and the low friction body contributes to an increase in the life of the hydraulic pressure actuator repeatedly performing extension/retraction motions. The hydraulic pressure actuator is used as an actuator for driving a CPM device which supports the extremity of a human body by ay least one of a plurality of members combined with each other and performs the rehabilitation of the joints of a handicapped by operating the member.
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| Intermittent passive traction device and method of use | 20060161085 | 20060720 |
| A device and method for applying intermittent passive traction (IPT) that includes an initial phase followed by a sustained traction phase and finally a relaxation phase. During the first phase of IPT, the spinal elements are placed under gentle traction. This period of time reduces the normal forces across the vertebral bodies, facet joints, paraspinal musculature, etc. The second phase holds the spine in sustained traction, further reducing the forces across the spinal elements, encouraging natural healing to occur and allowing the muscles a period of relaxation. The third phase includes the gradual reduction of traction. During this final phase, the normal forces across the spine are reestablished as the IPT device slowly releases traction. The method resolves many of the most limiting problems associated with... |
| Means for removing unwanted ions from an ion transport system and mass spectrometer | 20060151690 | 20060713 |
| The present invention relates to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) in which a collision cell is employed to selectively remove unwanted artefact ions from an ion beam by causing them to interact with a reagent gas. The present invention provides a first evacuated chamber (6) at high vacuum located between an expansion chamber (3) and a second evacuated chamber (20) containing the collision cell (24). The first evacuated chamber (6) includes a first ion optical device (17). The collision cell (24) contains a second ion optical device (25). The provision of the first evacuated chamber (6) reduces the gas load on the collision cell (24), by minimising the residual pressure within the collision cell (24) that is attributable to the gas load from the plasma... |
| System and method for video processing using overcomplete wavelet coding and circular prediction mapping | 20060153466 | 20060713 |
| A system, method, and computer program product for fractal video coding, based on the circular prediction mapping (CPM) in overcomplete wavelet domain. According to the disclosed process, each range block [B] is approximated by a domain block [A] in circularly previous frame [Fn-1]. The size of the domain block is made larger than that of the range block using a complete-to-overcomplete transform [FIG. 2], which provides faster convergence speed compared to the conventional CPM algorithm that uses the same domain block size. However, high temporal correlation is very well exploited between the adjacent frames, since the extended reference [210] is generated by shifting the original image [202] and hence retains the high temporal correlation to the range blocks. Furthermore, the preferred embodiment provides a spatial scalability.
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| Multi-symbol noncoherent cpm detector | 20060140307 | 20060629 |
| Two receivers are presented for the general case of noncoherent detection of multi-h continuous phase modulation. Both receivers yield performance gains using multi-symbol observations. The first is an existing receiver which has previously been applied to PCM/FM and is now applied to the Advanced Range Telemetry Tier II waveform. The second receiver is presented for the first time in this paper. The existing noncoherent receiver is found to perform poorly (and with high complexity) for the Advanced Range Telemetry Tier II case. For single-symbol observations, the new receiver outperforms conventional FM demodulation for both telemetry waveforms, and for multi-symbol observation lengths its performance approaches that of the optimal coherent receiver. The performance is evaluated using computer simulations. Receiver performance is also evaluated using a simple channel... |
| Modular drilling apparatus with power and/or data transmission | 20060124354 | 20060615 |
| The present invention relates to devices and methods for conveying power and/or data signal along a wellbore bottomhole assembly (BHA) having a steering unit, a bidirectional data communication and power (“BCPM”) unit, a sensor sub, a formation evaluation sub, stabilizers. A power and/or data transmission line enables power transfer and two-way data exchange among these BHA components. In one embodiment, a drilling motor includes a transmission unit that transmits power and/or data between modules adjacent the motor via conductive elements in the rotor and/or the stator. A power/data transfer device is adapted to transfer power and/or data between the rotating and non-rotating sections of the transmission unit. The tooling and equipment making up the BHA can be formed as interchangeable modules. Each module can includes electrical... |
| Test station for a fuel cell power module | 20060115693 | 20060601 |
| Aspects of the invention relate to a test station for a fuel cell power module (FCPM). The fuel cell power module has at least one fuel cell therein and a FCPM controller. The test station includes a test controller arranged to communicate with the FCPM controller to determine performance of the FCPM under a simulated load. The test station and FCPM may be arranged in various combinations and configurations for testing one or more FCPM's. One embodiment relates to a master-slave arrangement in which a master controller controls a number of slave test stations, each slave test station being arranged to test a respective power module under a simulated load
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