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 Use of post-blast markers in the mining of mineral deposits | 20130147253 | 20130613 |
 A method of mining a mineral deposit includes setting a plurality of explosive charges at spaced pre-blast locations in the deposit, wherein at least selected pre-blast locations also carry respective markers that are such that the post-blast location of at least a useful proportion will be detectable after explosion of the charges. After the charges are exploded to fragment the deposit, the post-blast locations of certain of the markers are detected to obtain an indication of the relative positions of selected components of the mineral deposit after the fragmentation of the deposit by the exploding of the charges. Also disclosed is a method utilising a plurality of markers arranged to emit a detectable signal after blast fragmentation, and detecting the post-blast locations by triangulation techniques employing... |
| Mechanism for controlling data transmission in fragmentation transmission mode | 20130148640 | 20130613 |
 There is provided a mechanism for controlling a transmission of data in a fragmentation transmission mode. When fragments are transmitted in a fragmentation transmission mode, it is determined whether the fragment frame is received successfully or whether an acknowledgment message for confirming a successful transmission of the fragment frame is received. In case the acknowledgment for the successful transmission of the one fragment frame is not received, or the fragment is frame is not successfully received, the fragmentation transmission mode is maintained and a retransmission of the fragment frame is initiated.
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| Method of performing ip fragmentation and related wireless network system | 20130148672 | 20130613 |
 A wireless network system includes a transmitting end and a receiving end which adopt a specific communication protocol for data transmission. At the transmitting end, a plurality of data packets are merged into a data packet string, which is then segmented into a plurality of sub data packets according to a maximum transmission unit of the specific communication protocol. The plurality of sub data packets are then transmitted to the receiving end for packet reassembly.
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| Information processing apparatus with function to solve fragmentation on memory, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor | 20130151878 | 20130613 |
 An information processing apparatus that is capable of reducing fragmentation of use areas on a memory and of shortening waiting time. The information processing apparatus has a volatile first memory and a nonvolatile second memory. A first control unit starts the information processing apparatus without using a hibernation image when a hibernation image is not stored in the second memory at the time of starting the information processing apparatus, and generates a hibernation image in the second memory. A second control unit starts the information processing apparatus while using a hibernation image when the hibernation image is stored in the second memory at the time of starting the information processing apparatus. A third control unit changes a state of the information processing apparatus to a power... |
| Memory defragmentation in a hosted hypervisor | 20130145073 | 20130606 |
 Machine memory fragmentation in a computer system having a host operating system and virtual machine running on a hypervisor hosted by the host operating system is reduced by having the hypervisor identify and release those machine memory pages that are more likely than others to reduce the fragmented state of the host machine memory.
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| System and method for fragmentation and dispersal of a compressed gas body | 20130134612 | 20130530 |
| A method for fragmenting a bubble of compressed gas released from a compressed gas reservoir situated at a depth under a water surface. The method comprises maintaining a grid disposed between the reservoir and the water surface to fragment the bubble into a plurality of fragmented bubble portions, the grid allowing passage therethrough of the fragmented bubble portions of the body of compressed gas generally along a travel path.
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| Boron nitride and boron nitride nanotube materials for radiation shielding | 20130119316 | 20130516 |
| Effective radiation shielding is required to protect crew and equipment in various fields including aerospace, defense, medicine and power generation. Light elements and in particular hydrogen are most effective at shielding against high-energy particles including galactic cosmic rays, solar energetic particles and fast neutrons. However, pure hydrogen is highly flammable, has a low neutron absorption cross-section, and cannot be made into structural components. Nanocomposites containing the light elements Boron, Nitrogen, Carbon and Hydrogen as well dispersed boron nano-particles, boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) and boron nitride nano-platelets, in a matrix, provide effective radiation shielding materials in various functional forms. Boron and nitrogen have large neutron absorption cross-sections and wide absorption spectra. The incorporation of boron and nitrogen containing nanomaterials into hydrogen containing matrices provides composites that can... |
| Method and system for achieving enhanced quality and higher throughput for collocated ieee 802.11b/g and bluetooth devices in coexistent operation | 20130121329 | 20130516 |
| Disclosed are various embodiments for providing wireless communication. A Bluetooth (BT) communication protocol and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) communication protocol are enabled in a station. A WLAN fragmentation threshold utilized by the WLAN communication protocol is modified based on a WLAN modulation rate and an HV3 frame duration that is utilized by the BT communication protocol.
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| Systems and methods for processing fragment ion spectra to determine mechanism of fragmentation and structure of molecule | 20130124102 | 20130516 |
| Correlated fragment ions of a molecule are grouped using mass spectrometry with ramps in collision energy (CE). A known molecule is fragmented and analyzed at a plurality of different collision energies using a mass spectrometer. A plurality of variables for a plurality of fragment ions are produced. Principal component analysis is performed on the plurality of variables. A number of principal components produced by the principal component analysis is selected. A subset principal component space is created having the number of principal components. A variable in the subset principal component space is selected. A spatial angle is defined around a vector extending from an origin to the variable. A set of one or more variables within the spatial angle of the vector is selected. The set... |
| Reactants for charge transfer reactions in mass spectrometers | 20130115711 | 20130509 |
| The invention relates to the use of substances for the production of anions suitable for charge transfer reactions in mass spectrometers, particularly for the fragmentation of multiply positively charged biopolymer ions by electron transfer or for charge reduction by proton transfer. Diketones, particularly α-diketones, are proposed as a newly found class of substances which can be used both for the production of radical anions for electron transfer dissociations (ETD) with a high yield of fragment ions and also for the production of non-radical anions for the charge reduction of multiply charged analyte ions by proton transfer reactions (PTR). These substances have favorable properties in terms of their handling and the associated analytical methods: they are largely nontoxic, cover a favorable range of molecular masses, and their... |
| Techniques for efficient fragmentation of peptides | 20130105682 | 20130502 |
| Techniques are described for performing mass spectrometry. A stream of one or more ions is generated. The stream is transmitted into a collision cell over a period of time. In accordance with a set of criteria including a retention time of one or more precursor ions, a collision energy of the collision cell is selected to generate one or more product ions for said one or more precursor ions in said stream.
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| Apparatus and method for using ultrasonic radiation for controlled fragmentation of chains of nucleic acids | 20130092524 | 20130418 |
| Example methods and systems are directed to controlled fragmentation of genetic samples that include chains of nucleic acid. Waveform inputs to a transducer configured as Fresnel Annular Sector Actuator (FASA) are used to focus acoustic energy at the genetic sample in a controlled fragmentation process that reduces the genetic sample to a desired average fragment size for the resulting chains of nucleic acid.
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| Method for retransmitting multicast frames and method for processing received multicast frames in wireless network | 20130094429 | 20130418 |
| A method for retransmitting a multicast frame in a wireless network and for determining whether a received multicast frame is a duplicated frame. In determining whether the received multicast frame is the same duplicated frame as a previously received multicast frame, a receiver address value and a sequence number of the multicast frame may be used. When fragmentation of a multicast frame is allowed, the value of a fragment number of the multicast frame may be also used, and if it includes a traffic ID, the value of the traffic ID can be also used for determining whether or not the multicast frame is a duplicated frame. If a multicast frame is transmitted in a wireless mesh network, it is determined whether or not the multicast... |
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| Gas-phase purification for accurate isobaric tag-based quantification | 20130084645 | 20130404 |
| Described herein are mass spectrometry systems and methods which improve the accuracy of isobaric tag-based quantification by alleviating the pervasive problem of precursor interference and co-isolation of impurities through gas-phase purification. During the gas-phase purification, the mass-to-charge ratios of precursor ions within at least a selected range are selectively changed allowing ions having similar unmodified mass-to-charge ratios to be separated before further isolation, fragmentation or analysis.
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| Mass spectrometric ion storage device for different mass ranges | 20130075602 | 20130328 |
| The invention relates to devices and methods for the storage of ions in mass spectrometers. The invention proposes the generation and superposition of two multipole fields of different order, independent of each other, in an RF multipole rod system. In an embodiment with eight pole rods, for example, it is thus possible to jointly store low-energy electrons in a central RF quadrupole field, which effectively acts only on electrons and holds them together radially, on the one hand, and multiply charged heavy positive ions in an RF octopole field, which effectively acts only on the ions, on the other hand, in order to fragment the positive ions by electron capture dissociation (ECD). In a different embodiment, multiply charged positive analyte ions and suitable negative reactant ions... |
| Novel isobaric tandem mass tags for quantitative proteomics and peptidomics | 20130078728 | 20130328 |
| Compositions and methods of tagging peptides and other molecules using novel isobaric tandem mass tagging reagents, including novel N,N-dimethylated amino acid 8-plex and 16-plex isobaric tandem mass tagging reagents. The tagging reagents comprise: a) a reporter group having at least one atom that is optionally isotopically labeled; b) a balancing group, also having at least one atom that is optionally isotopically labeled, and c) an amine reactive group. The tagging reagents disclosed herein serve as attractive alternatives for isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) and tandem mass tags (TMTs) due to their synthetic simplicity, labeling efficiency and improved fragmentation efficiency.
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| Content storage and identification | 20130073673 | 20130321 |
| Content intended for delivery to one or more consuming users may be recorded by a content distribution system. The recording or archival of the content may allow users to retrieve the content at a later time without providing specific instructions to record the content. Storage of the content may include retrieving programming information describing the content and storing the information in association with the content. In one or more arrangements, descriptive data for content may be generated based on user feedback. Additionally or alternatively, content storage may include fragmentation of the content into a number of segments or segments of a specified size. Content may further be paused and resumed between multiple devices, taking into account the capabilities and compatibilities of the devices and a network... |
| Distributed scalable encoder resources for live streams | 20130064285 | 20130314 |
| Live media streams are delineated for distributed encoding and fragmentation in a dynamically scalable distributed resource system. In some examples, live MPEG-2 media streams are separated into groups of pictures (GOPs) and converted into jobs for encoding and fragmentation systems. Multiple jobs may be created for the same live media stream to provide for different quality levels for each fragment of each channel. Shared resources such as a pool of dynamically scalable virtual machines can be used to process the individual jobs. Encoded fragments may be H.264 fragments maintained on shared storage. A particular live stream corresponding to a particular quality level can be reconstructed using the encoded fragments.
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| Weighted encoder fragment scheduling | 20130064286 | 20130314 |
| Live media streams are encoded and fragmented to generate encoded fragments appropriate for different devices and networks. Different encoded fragments may correspond to different resolutions, audio bit rates, quality levels, and even codecs, etc. Devices request encoded fragments as needed to reconstitute a live media stream for playback. In many instances, encoding and fragmentation jobs are provided to numerous distributed and scalable encoder and fragmenter systems. Encoding and fragmentation jobs are intelligently weighted and scheduled to prevent any disruption or delay in playback of any particular live stream.
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| Open trap mass spectrometer | 20130056627 | 20130307 |
| An open electrostatic trap mass spectrometer is disclosed for operation with wide and diverging ion packets. Signal on detector is composed of signals corresponding to multiplicity of ion cycles, called multiplets. Using reproducible distribution of relative intensity within multiplets, the signal can be unscrambled for relatively sparse spectra, such as spectra past fragmentation cell of tandem mass spectrometer, past ion mobility and differential ion mobility separators. Various embodiments are provided for particular pulsed ion sources and pulsed converters such as orthogonal accelerators, ion guides, and ion traps. The method and apparatus enhance the duty cycle of pulsed converters, improve space charge tolerance of the open trap analyzer and extends the dynamic range of time-of-flight detectors.
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| Method of detecting packet error of return link performed in satellite communication apparatus | 20130051267 | 20130228 |
| Provided is a method of detecting a packet error of a return link performed in a satellite communication apparatus receiving a packet through the return link. The method includes generating a first return link packet combination by assembling at least one fragmented packet received through the return link, and determining an error of the packet using at least one piece of information among fragmentation information on at least one second return link packet received after the first return link packet combination is generated, whether or not the first return link packet combination is complete, and packet process state information. Accordingly, it is possible to minimize packet loss caused by a reassembly error of a received packet.
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| Inhibitors of mitochondrial fission and methods of use thereof | 20130053321 | 20130228 |
| The present disclosure provides peptides and constructs that inhibit mitochondrial fission, and compositions comprising the peptides or constructs. The present disclosure provides methods of reducing abnormal mitochondrial fission in a cell. Also provided are methods for designing and validating mitochondrial fission inhibitor constructs and peptides, including but not limited to, evaluating the effects of the constructs and peptides on Drp1 GTPase activity, binding of Drp1 to Fis1, reduction of mitochondrial damage, reduction in cell death, inhibition of mitochondrial fragmentation in a cell under pathological conditions, and reduced loss of neurites in primary dopaminergic neurons in a Parkinsonism cell culture.
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| Polymer synthesis | 20130046052 | 20130221 |
| A method of preparing a block copolymer of Formula (B) wherein P1 represents a substantially aqueously soluble polymeric component and P2 represents a substantially aqueously insoluble polymeric component, comprises admixing an aqueously soluble polymer macro-chain transfer agent comprising P1 with a monomer (M2) and initiating an aqueous dispersion-type radical addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerisation. (P1) is derived from a monomer (M1) selected from monomers of the Formulae (M1A), (M1B) and/or (M1C) where R1, R10 and R11 represent a substituent of (M1A) or (M1C) which allows P1 to be at least partially aqueously soluble, R2 represents H, CH3 or CN, RS represents one or more substituents of the aromatic ring effective to allow P1 to be at least partially aqueously soluble, and monomer M2 is selected... |
| Method and apparatus for receiving a medium access control protocol data unit having a fragmentation and packing extended header | 20130039273 | 20130214 |
| The present invention relates to a method in which a receiver receives an MAC (medium access control) PDU (protocol data unit) in a wireless communication system. The method in which the receiver receives an MAC PDU comprises the following steps: receiving an MAC PDU containing a header and a payload from a transmitter, wherein the header includes a first extended header containing a first length field which indicates the length of a service data unit (hereinafter, referred to as “SDU”) or lengths of fragmented SDUs in the MAC PDU; decoding the header; and determining whether the size of the first length field in the extended header is an extended size or a basic size in accordance with the results of decoding.
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| Electron transfer dissociation device | 20130026358 | 20130131 |
| A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising an Electron Transfer Dissociation device comprising an ion guide. A control system determines the degree of fragmentation and charge reduction of precursor ions within the ion guide and varies the speed at which ions are transmitted through the ion guide in order to optimise the fragmentation and charge reduction process.
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| Fixed cutter drill bit with core fragmentation feature | 20130020134 | 20130124 |
| A drill bit has a plurality of blades that include a coring blade, a plurality of flow courses that include an evacuation slot disposed between the plurality of blades, and a conical insert disposed on or proximate a bit centerline of the drill bit. Coring blade includes a first cutting element disposed at a first radial position from the bit centerline. Also, coring blade includes a substantially vertical surface and an angled surface. During drilling, first cutting element cuts formation to generate a core sample fragment at bit centerline. Core sample fragment is then broken away from formation using angled surface or conical insert after core sample fragment reaches a certain length. Core sample fragment then exits drill bit via an evacuation slot, from where core... |
| Protein fragment complementation assays for the detection of biological or drug interactions | 20130022999 | 20130124 |
| The present invention describes a method for detecting biomolecular interactions said method comprising: (a) selecting an appropriate reporter molecule selected from the group consisting of a protein, a fluorescent protein, a luminescent protein and a phosphorescent protein; (b) effecting fragmentation of said reporter molecule such that said fragmentation results in reversible loss of reporter function; (c) fusing or attaching fragments of said reporter molecule separately to other molecules; followed by (d) reassociation of said reporter fragments through interactions of the molecules that are fused to said fragments; and (e) detecting said biomolecular interactions by reconstitution of activity of the reporter molecule
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| Transposon nucleic acids comprising a calibration sequence for dna sequencing | 20130023423 | 20130124 |
| Transposon nucleic acids comprising a transposon end sequence and a calibration sequence for DNA sequencing in the transposon end sequence. In one embodiment, the transposon end sequence is a Mu transposon end. A method for the generation of DNA fragmentation library based on a transposition reaction in the presence of a transposon end with the calibration sequence providing facilitated downstream handling of the produced DNA fragments, e.g., in the generation of sequencing templates.
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| Network transmission capacity measurement | 20130016620 | 20130117 |
| Transmission capacity from a first node to a second node through a communication network is measured. First and second probe message from the first node to the second node, a first and second amount of data in the first and second probe message respectively being mutually different, at least one of the first and second amount exceeding a fragmentation threshold of the communication network. First and second round trip time durations are measured between transmission of the first and second probe message from the first node and reception back at the first node of a first and second response message from the second node to the first and second probe message respectively. The capacity is computed from a difference between the first and second round trip... |
| Link layer preemption | 20130016724 | 20130117 |
| Disclosed are various embodiments for frame preemption and fragmentation at the media access control (MAC) sublayer of the link layer or the MAC merge sublayer of the link layer. Traffic classes may be organized into preemptive traffic classes and non-preemptive traffic classes. Preemptable frames may be fragmented when a preemptive frame is to be transmitted. The fragmentation may be indicated through modification of the value of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) field in a predetermined way, through addition of a fragmentation trailer, and/or through other approaches.
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| Method for the detection and/or enrichment of analyte proteins and/or analyte peptides from a complex protein mixture | 20100331199 | 20101230 |
| The present invention relates to a method for the detection and/or enrichment of a large number of different analyte proteins and/or analyte peptides from a sample mixture which includes proteins and/or peptides. The method includes the following steps: a) provision of the sample mixture and, where appropriate, fragmentation of the proteins contained therein into defined peptides, b) provision of first binding molecules which are specific for a peptide epitope of at least one of the various analyte proteins and/or analyte peptides, whereby the peptide epitope includes up to a maximum of five, preferably two to three, amino acids, c) incubation of the first binding molecules with the sample mixture, and d) detection and/or enrichment of the analyte proteins and/or analyte peptides bound to the first binding... |
| Labeling peptides with tertiary amines and other basic functional groups for improved mass spectrometric analysis | 20100330680 | 20101230 |
| The present invention provides methods for enhancing the fragmentation of peptides for mass spectrometry by modifying the peptides with a tagging reagent containing a functional group, such as a tertiary amine, having a greater gas-phase basicity than the amide backbone of the peptide. These high gas-phase basicity functional groups are attached to a peptide by reacting the tagging reagent to one or more available carboxylic acid groups of the peptide. Linking these high gas-phase functional groups to the peptides leads to higher charge state ions from electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), which fragment more extensively during fragmentation techniques, particularly non-ergodic fragmentation techniques such as electron capture dissociation (ECD) and electron transfer dissociation (ETD).
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| Systems and methods for communicating a lossy protocol via a lossless protocol using false acknowledgements | 20100325299 | 20101223 |
| The present invention is generally directed towards a remote access architecture for providing peer-to-peer communications and remote access connectivity. In one embodiment, the remote access architecture of the present provides a method for establishing a direct connection between peer computing devices via a third computing device, such as a gateway. Additionally, the present invention provides the following techniques to optimize peer-to-peer communications: 1) false acknowledgement of receipt of network packets allowing communications via a lossless protocol of packets constructed for transmission via a lossy protocol, 2) payload shifting of network packets allowing communications via a lossless protocol of packets constructed for transmission via a lossy protocol, 3) reduction of packet fragmentation by adjusting the maximum transmission unit (MTU) parameter, accounting for overhead due to encryption, 4)... |
| Tailored nanopost arrays (napa) for laser desorption ionization in mass spectrometry | 20100323917 | 20101223 |
| The production and use of semiconducting nanopost arrays made by nanofabrication is described herein. These nanopost arrays (NAPA) provide improved laser ionization yields and controllable fragmentation with switching or modulation capabilities for mass spectrometric detection and identification of samples deposited on them.
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| Atom chip device | 20100320995 | 20101223 |
| Ultra-cold (nano-Kelvin) neutral atoms can be trapped, manipulated, and measured, using integrated current carrying micro-structures on a nearby surface (Atom Chips). This can be utilized for the realization of ultra-sensitive sensors and quantum computation devices based on the quantum mechanical properties of the trapped atoms. However, harmful processes arise from the interactions between the atoms and the nearby surface. According to the present invention these harmful processes can be highly suppressed by using electrically anisotropic materials. It is shown that time-independent trapping potential corrugation leading to fragmentation of the trapped atom cloud can be suppressed, and that time dependent noise processes arising from the coupling of atoms to the nearby surface, and leading to loss of atoms from the trap, heating and loss of coherence can... |
| Biomedical devices | 20100318185 | 20101216 |
| Biomedical devices such as contact lenses formed from a polymerization product of a mixture comprising (a) a multi-armed macromonomer comprising multiple side chains attached to a nucleus, wherein each side chain comprises a thio carbonyl thio fragment of the same or different reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (“RAFT”) agent; and (b) one or more biomedical device-forming monomers are disclosed.
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| Biomedical devices | 20100317817 | 20101216 |
| Biomedical devices such as contact lenses formed from a polymerization product of a mixture comprising (a) a random copolymer comprising hydrophilic units and hydrophobic units, wherein the random copolymer has at least one thio carbonyl thio fragment of a reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (“RAFT”) agent are disclosed.
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| Biomedical devices | 20100317809 | 20101216 |
| Biomedical devices such as silicone hydrogels formed from a polymerization product of a mixture comprising (a) a siloxane-containing homopolymer comprising one or more thio carbonyl thio fragments of a reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) agent; and (b) one or more biomedical device-forming monomers are disclosed.
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| Biomedical devices | 20100315588 | 20101216 |
| Biomedical devices such as contact lenses formed from a polymerization product of a mixture comprising (a) a hydrophilic polymer comprising one or more hydrophilic units and one or more thio carbonyl thio fragments of a reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (“RAFT”) agent; and (b) one or more biomedical device-forming monomers are disclosed.
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| Defragmentation of solid state memory | 20100312983 | 20101209 |
| A data storage device includes a solid state data storage medium, a set of related data blocks and a controller. The set of related data blocks are non-contiguously stored on the data storage medium and have an original write sequence. The controller, responsive to a defragmentation request, maps the physical block addresses of the set of related data blocks to contiguous logical block addresses in the original write sequence while maintaining the non-contiguous physical block addresses of the set of related data blocks on the data storage medium.
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| Method and system for managing transmission of fragmented data packets | 20100306407 | 20101202 |
| A method of managing transmission of a fragmented datagram in a network having end devices and intermediate routing or switching devices in which fragmentation of the datagram takes place at an upstream intermediate device. The method includes receiving and temporarily storing a first datagram fragment at a downstream intermediate device, the fragment including data allowing classification of the fragments of the datagram; and receiving and temporarily storing subsequent fragments of the same datagram at the downstream device. Once all datagram fragments are received, all of the fragments are classified and transmitted on based on the classification data of the first fragment. However, if a predetermined time period has elapsed and at least one fragment is missing, an action other than transmission on to a subsequent device... |
| Linear ion trap for msms | 20100301205 | 20101202 |
| A method and apparatus for acquiring time profiles of ion intensities of product ions in a mass spectrometer is provided. The mass spectrometer comprises an ion trap, a fragmentation module connected to the ion trap, and a mass analyzer module positioned to receive ions from the fragmentation module. Precursor ions, trapped in the ion trap, are ejected from the ion trap in order of m/z ratio. At least of some the precursor ions are fragmented at the fragmentation module to form product ions. Time profiles of ion intensities of the product ions are acquired, the product ions received at the mass analyzer module, by recording a plurality of product mass spectra for each respective precursor ion. The plurality of product mass spectra is processed, using the... |
| Tandem tof mass spectrometer with high resolution precursor selection and multiplexed ms-ms | 20100301202 | 20101202 |
| A tandem TOF mass spectrometer includes a first TOF mass analyzer that generates an ion beam comprising a plurality of ions and that selects a group of precursor ions from the plurality of ions. A pulsed ion accelerator accelerates and refocuses the selected group of precursor ions. An ion fragmentation chamber is positioned to receive the selected group of precursor ions that is refocused by the pulsed ion accelerator. At least some of the selected group of precursor ions is fragmented in the ion fragmentation chamber. A second TOF mass analyzer receives the selected group of precursor ions and ion fragments thereof from the ion fragmentation chamber and separates the ion fragments and then detects a fragment ion mass spectrum.
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| Breaker fluids and methods of using the same | 20100300967 | 20101202 |
| A method of cleaning a wellbore drilled with a drilling fluid that forms a filter cake that includes emplacing a breaker fluid into the wellbore, the breaker fluid comprising: an aqueous fluid; a fragmentation agent; and an amphoteric chemotrope; and shutting in the well for a period of time sufficient to initiate breaking of the filter cake is disclosed.
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| Mass spectrometer | 20100294923 | 20101125 |
| A collision or fragmentation cell (4) is disclosed comprising a plurality of electrodes wherein a first RF voltage (7a) is applied to an upstream group of electrodes and a second different RF voltage (7b) is applied to a downstream group of electrodes. The radial confinement of parent ions entering the collision or fragmentation cell (4) is optimised by the first RF voltage applied to the upstream group of electrodes and the radial confinement of daughter or fragment ions produced within the collision or fragmentation cell (4) is optimised by the second different RF voltage applied to the downstream group of electrodes.
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| Projectile | 20100294160 | 20101125 |
| A projectile (1) is optionally used as a fragmentation projectile or as a projectile that utilizes a pressure wave effect created when the explosive charge (3) explodes. The projectile (1) contains an ejection charge (12), and an explosive charge (3) arranged in a jacket (4) that can be moved axially with respect to a fragmentation casing (5). The ejection charge (12) allows the explosive charge (3) and surrounding jacket (4) to be pushed at least so far out of the projectile casing (2) that, in the event of explosion, the explosive charge does not act on the fragmentation casing (5). In order to ensure that the jacket (4) of the explosive charge (3) does not develop any fragmentation effect, or develops only a small fragmentation effect,... |
| Apparatus and method for minimizing data storage media fragmentation | 20100293354 | 20101118 |
| A method of minimizing data storage medium fragmentation, wherein the method provides a data storage library comprising (N) data storage media, wherein (N) is greater than or equal to 1. The method establishes a threshold fragmentation index, and determines, for each value of (i), an actual fragmentation index for an (i)th data storage medium, wherein (i) is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to (N). The method receives a data set from a host computer in communication with the data storage library, and writes the data set to an (i)th data storage medium based upon an (i)th actual fragmentation index.
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| Method and apparatus for ion fragmentation in mass spectrometry | 20100288920 | 20101118 |
| A method for fragmentation of analyte ions for mass spectroscopy and a system for mass spectroscopy. The method produces gas-phase analyte ions, produces gas-phase odd-electron containing species separately from the analyte ions, and mixes the gas-phase analyte ions and the odd-electron containing species at substantially atmospheric pressure conditions to produce fragment ions prior to introduction into a mass spectrometer. The system includes a gas-phase analyte ion source, a gas-phase odd-electron containing species source separate from the gas-phase analyte ion source, a mixing region where the gas-phase analyte ions and the odd-electron containing species are mixed at substantially atmospheric pressure to produce fragment ions of the analyte ions, a mass spectrometer having an entrance where at least a portion of the fragment ions are introduced into a... |
| Methods for generating polynucleotides having desired characteristics by iterative selection and recombination | 20100286369 | 20101111 |
| A method for DNA reassembly after random fragmentation, and its application to mutagenesis of nucleic acid sequences by in vitro or in vivo recombination is described. In particular, a method for the production of nucleic acid fragments or polynucleotides encoding mutant proteins is described. The present invention also relates to a method of repeated cycles of mutagenesis, shuffling and selection which allow for the directed molecular evolution in vitro or in vivo of proteins.
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| Prolonged ion resonance collision induced dissociation in a quadrupole ion trap | 20100282963 | 20101111 |
| A technique is disclosed for conducting collision induced dissociation (CID) in a quadrupole ion trap (QIT) having higher order field components. In order to compensate for the shift in the frequency of motion with amplitude of the excited ions arising from the influence of higher-order field components, the amplitude of the RF voltages applied to the QIT is monotonically varied during the excitation period to prolong the condition of resonance, resulting in higher average kinetic energies of the excited ions. Thus, higher fragmentation efficiencies may be obtained, or a targeted level of fragmentation may be achieved in less time relative to conventional CID.
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| Selectable effect warhead | 20100282115 | 20101111 |
| A munition includes a casing, the casing formed at least in part from a material comprising (i) a meltable or phase-changing material, and (ii) an energetic material; an explosive payload contained within the casing; and a fuze arrangement, the fuze arrangement comprising a main fuze configured and arranged to ignite the high explosive, and at least one secondary fuze configured and arranged to cause the casing material to melt or undergo a phase change. A method of selectively altering the mode of operation of a munition includes: forming a casing, the casing comprising a material comprising (i) a meltable or phase-changing material, and (ii) an energetic material; introducing an explosive payload into the casing; providing a fuze arrangement comprising a main fuse and at least one... |
| Protease inhibitor sample collection system | 20100280414 | 20101104 |
| A collection container and a method for collecting a biological sample, particularly whole blood, includes at least one stabilizing agent in an amount effective to stabilize and inhibit protein degradation and/or fragmentation. The stabilizing agent is able to stabilize proteases in the biological sample, particularly at the point of collection, by inhibiting protein degradation and/or fragmentation in the sample when the sample is stored. The stabilizing agent comprises or consists of one or more protease inhibitors.
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| Methods for producing nucleic acid hybridization probes that amplify hybridization signal by promoting network formation | 20100279304 | 20101104 |
| This invention describes methods for the generation of nucleic acid probes that improve the sensitivity of hybridization assays. The sensitivity increase results from structural modifications of nucleic acids that promote network formation during hybridization with the result that a single target molecule becomes attached to a complex of many probe molecules. The structural modification involves fragmentation of the probe nucleic acid followed by joining the fragments together such that their order and orientation and number is altered from the original probe molecule. The result is the generation of permuted probe libraries. Various fragmentation and joining methods are described. Labeling can be done by standard methods before during or after formation of permuted probe libraries. Individual members of permuted probe libraries can be isolated and amplified and... |
| Antibody formulations having optimized aggregation and fragmentation profiles | 20100278929 | 20101104 |
| The present invention provides methods of optimizing the production and purification of antibody formulations that immunospecifically bind to antigens of interest and are suitable for parenteral administration to a subject, which formulations exhibit increased stability due to reduced degradation and aggregation of the antibody component on long term storage. Such methods provide formulations that offer multiple advantages over formulations produced by non-optimized methods including less stringent or more readily available transportation/storage conditions, and less frequent dosing or smaller dosage amounts in the therapeutic, prophylactic and diagnostic use of such formulations. The invention further provides methods of utilizing the formulations of the present invention.
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| Single phase tungsten alloy for shaped charge liner | 20100275800 | 20101104 |
| A single phase metal alloy usually for forming a shaped charge liner for a penetrating jet or explosively formed penetrator forming warhead consists essentially of from a trace to 90%, by weight, of cobalt, from 10% to 50% by weight, of tungsten, and the balance nickel and inevitable impurities. One preferred composition is, by weight, from 16% to 22%, cobalt, from 35% to 40% tungsten and the balance is nickel and inevitable impurities. The alloy is worked and recrystallized and then formed into a desired product. In addition to a shaped charge liner, other useful products include a fragmentation warhead, a warhead casing, ammunition, radiation shielding and weighting.
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| Method and apparatus for thermalization of ions | 20100270465 | 20101028 |
| A method of pulsing gas in a quadrupole ion trap to reduce excess internal energy of ions formed externally to the trap at high-vacuum conditions by laser desoprtion is disclosed. With pulsed gas introduction, pressures greater than those under which traps are normally operated can be achieved over a few milliseconds. Under these elevated pressure transients, the process of translational cooling is accelerated and ions undergo thermalized collisions before dissociation occurs. Minimization of uncontrolled fragmentation (thermalization) and enhanced sensitivity are observed at pressures exceeding a threshold of about 1 mTorr.
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| Device for remote defragmentation of an embedded device | 20100262587 | 20101014 |
| An embedded device (1) having a memory (2) that is organized to store both data objects (DO1-DOx) and meta data (MD) which describes the locations at which the data objects are stored in the memory (2), the embedded device (1) which is connectable to a remote defragmentation device (3) is disclosed. The embedded device (1) is adapted to transmit, at the request of the defragmentation device (3), the meta data (MD) and optionally the data objects (DO1-DOx) stored in the memory (2) to the defragmentation device (3) and, in accordance with instructions and data received from the defragmentation device (3), to update in its memory (2) the meta data (MD) and to store the data objects (DO1-DOx) at locations as defined in the updated meta data... |
| Vpn optimization by defragmentation and deduplication apparatus and method | 20100260187 | 20101014 |
| An apparatus for optimizing a virtual private network operates by defragmenting and deduplicating transfer of variable sized blocks. A large data object is converted to a plurality of data paragraphs by a fingerprinting method. Each data paragraph is cached and hashed. The hashes are transmitted between a primary and a satellite apparatus. Only data paragraphs which are not cached at both the primary and satellite are transferred. The data object is integrated from data paragraphs stored in cache and transmitted to its destination IP address.
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| Use special ion source apparatus and implant with molecular ions to process hdd (high density magnetic disks) with patterned magnetic domains | 20100258431 | 20101014 |
| A method and apparatus for manufacturing magnetic storage media is provided. A structural substrate is coated with a magnetically susceptible material, and a patterned resist layer is formed over the magnetically susceptible material. Atom groups are directed toward the substrate, penetrating the resist and implanting into the magnetically susceptible layer. Thick portions of the resist prevent implantation in some areas to form a pattern of magnetic properties on the substrate. Energy and composition of the atom groups, thickness and hardness of the resist, and lattice energy of the magnetically susceptible material may all be adjusted to yield desired fragmentation and implantation of the atom groups, including in some embodiments mere impact on the surface without implanting. A protective layer and a lubricating layer are formed over... |
| Method and computer program product for memory management in a mass storage device | 20100257330 | 20101007 |
| The present invention relates to a method for memory management in a mass storage device, said method comprising the steps of: providing a managed memory area of s blocks that can be moved and stored in two parts to prevent fragmentation, wherein the managed memory area (stockling) is associated with information about its size s, whether or not the area is divided in two parts and the location and size of the respective parts; associating each stockling with the address to the pointer to the data structure stored in the stockling so it can be updated when the stockling is moved; associating the stockling with a, possibly empty, procedure for encoding the location and size of the second part and the size of the first part... |
| Banded indirection for nonvolatile memory devices | 20090327582 | 20091231 |
| Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products that enable banded indirection for nonvolatile memory devices, such as flash memory devices, are disclosed. One or more embodiments comprise a method for performing banded indirection when accessing data of a nonvolatile device. The methods comprise tracking fragmentation of a band of physical addresses of the nonvolatile memory device, storing a physical address of the band, and accessing data of a logical address of the band via the stored physical address based on the fragmentation of the band. Some embodiments comprise apparatuses for accessing data of nonvolatile devices using banded indirection. The embodiments comprise a nonvolatile memory element to store data, wherein the nonvolatile memory element has bands of physical addresses, a fragmentation detector to detect fragmentation of a band... |
| Defragmentation of digital storage media | 20090327370 | 20091231 |
| The invention concerns a technique for defragmenting digital storage media (disks). The invention is based on a filter driver or corresponding technology receiving all I/O to and/or from the file system driver, and which by itself is able to send I/O requests to the file system driver FIG. 2 illustrates the basic architecture of the invention in the form of a data flow diagram. Filter (201) receives all I/O requests to and/or from the underlying file system driver. I/O-Synchronizer (202) controls when defragmentation can be performed without interfering with external I/O requests. In Defragmenter (203) is running a separate thread that analyzes files for fragmentation received from Filter (201). Fragmented files are defragmented by sending I/O requests to the file system driver, but only when I/O-Synchronisator... |
| Apoptotic and anti-tumor activities of metallo-salens | 20090326061 | 20091231 |
| The present invention describes the synthesis and biochemical activities of metallo-salen compounds and their derivatives. The Mn(III)-salen and Fe(III)-salen derivatives of the present invention are potential anti-tumor agents, that affect cell viability, induce strong apoptotic activity, cause nuclear condensation, fragmentation, and ultimately death in breast cancer cells MCF-7.
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| Applique body armor system (a-bas) | 20090320171 | 20091231 |
| The object of our invention is to provide the military wearer the option for placing hard plate body armor externally over his existing fragmentation vest. Our invention allows the wearer to select plate size and location, and then rapidly attach plates to connectors on the fragmentation vest carrier. Our invention's advantage is allowing the user to rapidly increase area of coverage and increased protection levels based on threats or special mission with no modifications to the solder's outer tactical ballistic vest. Our invention comprises at least one ballistic plate, a carrier pocket for the ballistic plate that surrounds the ballistic plate, attachment loops on the pocket, and a readily attachable and detachable mechanical attachment mechanism. The invention attaches to existing attaching points on the soldier's fragmentation... |
| Protein structure analysis method, protein structure analyzing instrument, program and recording medium | 20090319234 | 20091224 |
| This invention fragments ions ionized by an electro-spray ionization method or the like for a target protein whose three-dimensional structure is to be predicted, to fragment ions by a hexapole CID method or the like, and measures a fragmentation spectrum. The present invention determines fragment ion assignment information on an amino acid sequence of the target protein based on the measured fragmentation spectrum. The present invention specifies a region of the amino acid sequence of the target protein in which region the ions are dissociated to the fragment ions according to the determined fragment ion assignment information, and determines easily cleavable domain information on the amino acid sequence of the target protein according to the specified region. The present invention predicts the three-dimensional structure of the... |
| Mechanically attached laminated seamless airbag hinge system | 20090315303 | 20091224 |
| A system and method for controlling the deployment force of a vehicle airbag that facilitates airbag deployment, militates against fragmentation of the trim panel and deployment section, and is lightweight and cost effective. The system includes a trim piece, an airbag housing, and a reinforced sheet.
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| Method and system for defense against incoming rockets and missiles | 20090314878 | 20091224 |
| An interception system for intercepting incoming missiles and/or rockets including a launch facility, a missile configured to be launched by the launch facility, the missile having a fragmentation warhead, a ground-based missile guidance system for guiding the missile during at least one early stage of missile flight and a missile-based guidance system for guiding the missile during at least one later stage of missile flight, the missile-based guidance system being operative to direct the missile in a last stage of missile flight in a head-on direction vis-a-vis an incoming missile or rocket.
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| Self-propelled harvesting vehicle for crop material for technical use | 20090313961 | 20091224 |
| A self-propelled harvesting vehicle includes a crop material pick-up device, a fragmentation step for fragmentizing the crop material, and a mechanical dehydration device which is used to remove an aqueous portion of the crop material, and which is divided into a first dehydration step that takes place upstream of the fragmentation step, and a second dehydration step that takes place downstream of the fragmentation step.
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| Shear stress ultrasonic horn for ultrasonic surgical aspiration | 20090312692 | 20091217 |
| An ultrasonic horn for use with an ultrasonic surgical hand piece including a resonator comprises a contacting annulus having a plurality of angled lands. The lands are alternated around the annulus such that adjacent lands have opposite angles. As a result of the adjacent angled lands, a shear stress field is developed in contacted tissue due to the promotion of refracted longitudinal ultrasonic waves propagating in different directions at the interface to the coupled tissue. The shear stress field enhances the fragmentation and removal rate of fibrous, elastic, and tenacious tissue. The horn is hollow permitting suction to be applied to the tissue for controlling tissue contact with the lands.
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| Nucleic acid analysis by random mixtures of non-overlapping fragments | 20090311691 | 20091217 |
| The invention provides methods and kits for ordering sequence information derived from one or more target polynucleotides. In one aspect, one or more tiers or levels of fragmentation and aliquoting are generated, after which sequence information is obtained from fragments in a final level or tier. Each fragment in such final tier is from a particular aliquot, which, in turn, is from a particular aliquot of a prior tier, and so on. For every fragment of an aliquot in the final tier, the aliquots from which it was derived at every prior tier is known, or can be discerned. Thus, identical sequences from overlapping fragments from different aliquots can be distinguished and grouped as being derived from the same or different fragments from prior tiers. When... |
| Packet reformatting for downstream links | 20090307727 | 20091210 |
| Systems, devices, and methods are described for formatting packets for downstream satellite links. The generation of a broadband wireless signal is described, the signal to be transmitted between a gateway and subscriber terminals via satellite. Respective data link layer addresses for the subscriber terminals may each be associated with one or more shortened identifiers for use in lieu of the associated data link layer addresses. This addressing may be included in a stream encapsulation header for an appended data packet. One or more such headers and their appended data packets may then be encapsulated in a baseband frame for transmission within a physical layer frame. Data packets may be fragmented across physical layer frames, and a range of novel formatting techniques may be used to implement... |
| Antibody formulation | 20090306348 | 20091210 |
| The present invention provides formulations and methods for the stabilization of antibodies. In one embodiment, the invention provides the stabile formulation of antibodies that are prone to non-enzymatic fragmentation at the hinge region. In a further embodiment, the invention provides methods of stabilization of antibodies comprising lyophilizing an aqueous formulation of an antibody. The formulations can be lyophilized to stabilize the antibodies during processing and storage, and then the formulations can be reconstituted for pharmaceutical administration. In one embodiment, the present invention provides methods of stabilization of anti-VEGFR antibodies comprising lyophilizing an aqueous formulation of an anti-VEGFR antibody. The formulations can be lyophilized to stabilize the anti-VEGFR antibodies during processing and storage, and then the formulations can be reconstituted for pharmaceutical administration.
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| Method for the identification of suitable fragmentation sites in a reporter protein | 20090305286 | 20091210 |
| The invention concerns a combinatorial method for the generation of new split-protein sensors, and its application towards the (β/α)8-barrel enzyme N-(5′-phosphoribosyl)-anthranilate isomerase Trp1p from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is demonstrated. The generated split-Trp protein sensors allow for the detection of protein-protein interactions in the cytosol as well as the membrane by enabling trp1 cells to grow on medium lacking tryptophan. This powerful selection thus complements the repertoire of the currently used split-protein sensors and provides a new tool for high-throughput interaction screening.
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| Object tracking using color histogram and object size | 20090304229 | 20091210 |
| A solution for monitoring an area uses color histograms and size information (e.g., heights and widths) for blob(s) identified in an image of the area and model(s) for existing object track(s) for the area. Correspondence(s) between the blob(s) and the object track(s) are determined using the color histograms and size information. Information on an object track is updated based on the type of correspondence(s). The solution can process merges, splits and occlusions of foreground objects as well as temporal and spatial fragmentations.
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| Data center interconnect and traffic engineering | 20090303880 | 20091210 |
| A system for commoditizing data center networking is disclosed. The system includes an interconnection topology for a data center having a plurality of servers and a plurality of nodes of a network in the data center through which data packets may be routed. The system uses a routing scheme where the routing is oblivious to the traffic pattern between nodes in the network, and wherein the interconnection topology contains a plurality of paths between one or more servers. The multipath routing may be Valiant load balancing. It disaggregates the function of load balancing into a group of regular servers, with the result that load balancing server hardware can be distributed amongst racks in the data center leading to greater agility and less fragmentation. The architecture creates... |
| Mass spectrometer | 20090302210 | 20091210 |
| A mass spectrometer comprising a collision, fragmentation or reaction cell (4) is disclosed. The collision, fragmentation or reaction cell (4) is repeatedly switched back and forth between a high fragmentation mode of operation and a low fragmentation mode of operation. Mass spectral data sets are obtained in both modes of operation. A decimal mass filter is applied to one or both sets of data. In particular, fragment ions or metabolites related to a parent or precursor ion of interest are identified on the basis of having a decimal mass which is similar to that of the parent or precursor ion of interest.
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| System and method for providing a secure application fragmentation environment | 20090300366 | 20091203 |
| System and method for providing and using expanded memory resources secure application environment is disclosed. An embodiment comprises a system and method for providing secure application functionality comprising receiving a request for a secure operation; determining if required application code for the secure operation is present in an application fragment store; sequentially loading a plurality of fragments of the required application code from an external memory, if the required application code is not present in the application fragment store; sequentially executing the plurality of fragments of the required application code; and sending a reply to the request for the secure operation. The system and method may further comprise decrypting each of the plurality of fragments of the required application code using a secure key prior to... |
| Fragmentation of ions in kingdon ion traps | 20090294656 | 20091203 |
| Fragment ion spectra are acquired in Kingdon ion traps that have a potential well for harmonic oscillations of the ions in the longitudinal direction and in which the ions can oscillate radially in a plane between two or more inner electrodes. Metastable ions, preferably produced by laser desorption, are introduced into the Kingdon ion trap close to the minimum of the longitudinal potential well and stored there locally for a predetermined time period. Excess internal energy in the metastable ions causes most of the ions to decompose ergodically to fragment ions. Then the fragment ions and any remaining analyte ions are excited to execute harmonic oscillations in the longitudinal potential well. The harmonic oscillations are measured as image currents, from which a high-resolution mass spectrum of... |
| Method for retransmitting multicast frames and method for processing received multicast frames in wireless network | 20090290524 | 20091126 |
| A method for retransmitting a multicast frame in a wireless network and a method for determining whether or not a received multicast frame is a duplicated frame are disclosed. In determining whether or not the received multicast frame is the same duplicated frame as a previously received multicast frame, a receiver address value and a sequence number of the multicast frame may be used. When fragmentation of a multicast frame is allowed, the value of a fragment number of the multicast frame may be also used, and if it includes a traffic ID, the value of the traffic ID can be also used for determining whether or not the multicast frame is a duplicated frame. If a multicast frame is transmitted in a wireless mesh network,... |
| Hardware accelerated protocol stack for mediaflo | 20090285096 | 20091119 |
| Protocol stack layer processing for a MediaFLO™ mobile multimedia multicast system comprising a transmitter comprising a host processor and a host memory component. The processing includes a receiver that receives a wireless data stream comprising a MediaFLO™ mobile multimedia multicast system superframe comprising any of audio, video, and text media frames arranged in multiplexed Multicast Logical Channels (MLCs) and received from the transmitter, wherein each MLC is divided into 16 byte data packets, and wherein each MLC carries up to three logical sub-channels comprising stream 2, stream 1, and stream 0; and an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) memory component operatively connected to the receiver, wherein the ASIC memory component performs processing of the data packets using hardware components comprising, a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer... |
| 3d ion trap as fragmentation cell | 20090283675 | 20091119 |
| In a tandem mass spectrometer with mass selector spatially separated from a mass analyzer, ions are fragmented in a three-dimensional RF by electron transfer dissociation. The fragment ions are then extracted from the 3D ion trap and introduced into the mass analyzer. The extraction is accomplished by providing, in one of the ion trap end cap electrodes, an aperture with a relatively large area covered by a conductive mesh or formed by closely spaced smaller apertures. The fragment ions are extracted from the RF ion trap by applying a DC voltage to one of the end cap electrodes.
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| Fragmentation of analyte ions by collisions in rf ion traps | 20090283672 | 20091119 |
| Analyte ions, particularly biopolymer ions, stored in an RF ion trap are ergodically fragmented by bombarding the analyte ions with collision ions, for example medium-mass, mono-atomic ions having a charge of opposite polarity to the charge of the analyte ions. Since the analyte ions are not fragmented by accelerating and/or exciting them to oscillations, as is the case with conventional collision-induced dissociation, the RF voltage of the ion trap can be set low enough that daughter ions with light charge-related masses that are produced by the fragmentation can also remain trapped in the ion trap.
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| Method for manufacturing toner | 20090280430 | 20091112 |
| There is provided a method for manufacturing a toner capable of providing a toner having excellent low-temperature fixing property and anti-offset property by adjusting a molecular weight distribution of a polymerization toner to a narrow distribution range. The method is characterized in that a toner is polymerized using a reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (RAFT) method by adding a dithioacetate, xanthate or dithioester-based chain transfer agent in the polymerization of a toner. The method for manufacturing a toner comprises: dissolving a dispersant in water to prepare an aqueous dispersion solution; mixing a binder resin monomer, a charge control agent, a pigment, a wax and a dithioacetate, xanthate or dithioester-based chain transfer agent to prepare a monomer mixture; adding the monomer mixture to the aqueous dispersion solution... |
| Method for manufacturing toner | 20090280430 | 20091112 |
| There is provided a method for manufacturing a toner capable of providing a toner having excellent low-temperature fixing property and anti-offset property by adjusting a molecular weight distribution of a polymerization toner to a narrow distribution range. The method is characterized in that a toner is polymerized using a reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (RAFT) method by adding a dithioacetate, xanthate or dithioester-based chain transfer agent in the polymerization of a toner. The method for manufacturing a toner comprises: dissolving a dispersant in water to prepare an aqueous dispersion solution; mixing a binder resin monomer, a charge control agent, a pigment, a wax and a dithioacetate, xanthate or dithioester-based chain transfer agent to prepare a monomer mixture; adding the monomer mixture to the aqueous dispersion solution... |
| Memory management system for reducing memory fragmentation | 20090276602 | 20091105 |
| A memory management system for a process formulated in the C/C++ language in a processing unit includes an allocator which processes memory blocks of predetermined size, for example 64 Kb. Large objects are defined as being objects having a size of between 256 and 64 Kb. For such objects, 64 Kb memory block is considered to be a memory region (“chunk”) able to accommodate several large objects of different sizes. When an object is no longer used by the process, the space freed can be returned to the operating system. Before this, this free space is merged with adjacent free spaces. To search for adjacent free spaces, the Bruijn sequence algorithm is used, applied to the bit field disposed in each predetermined memory region.
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| Method and system for hybrid garbage collection of multi-tasking systems | 20090276478 | 20091105 |
| In general, the invention relates to a method for garbage collection. The method includes examining old regions to obtain a mark bitmap, a connectivity matrix, and fragmentation information, where the mark bitmap describes marked words and unmarked words for the old regions. The method further includes identifying a fragmented region in the old regions based on the fragmentation information, where the fragmented region includes at least one of the marked words. The method further includes copying the at least one of the marked words to a new region allocated from a pool of free regions, designating each of the unmarked words not in the fragmented region as free, adjusting a cross-region reference to the fragmented region in the marked words to point to the new region... |
| Medical devices having a bioresorbable coating layer with a pre-determined pattern for fragmentation | 20090274743 | 20091105 |
| Intravascular medical devices comprising a coating layer disposed on a substrate associated with the medical device, wherein the coating layer has a pre-determined fragmentation pattern. At least a portion of the coating layer comprises a plurality of discontinuous bioresorbable members, wherein the discontinuous bioresorbable members have a size less than the luminal diameter of an arteriole. The coating layer may be formed by excavating portions of a coating layer (e.g., by laser ablation) to create gaps which define the discontinuous bioresorbable members. In certain embodiments, the coating layer is formed of a heat-bondable material. In such embodiments, the discontinuous bioresorbable members may be adhered to the substrate via heat bonds. Also disclosed are methods of forming a coating layer on medical devices and methods of treating... |
| Memory management system for reducing memory fragmentation | 20090276602 | 20091105 |
| A memory management system for a process formulated in the C/C++ language in a processing unit includes an allocator which processes memory blocks of predetermined size, for example 64 Kb. Large objects are defined as being objects having a size of between 256 and 64 Kb. For such objects, 64 Kb memory block is considered to be a memory region (“chunk”) able to accommodate several large objects of different sizes. When an object is no longer used by the process, the space freed can be returned to the operating system. Before this, this free space is merged with adjacent free spaces. To search for adjacent free spaces, the Bruijn sequence algorithm is used, applied to the bit field disposed in each predetermined memory region.
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| Method and system for hybrid garbage collection of multi-tasking systems | 20090276478 | 20091105 |
| In general, the invention relates to a method for garbage collection. The method includes examining old regions to obtain a mark bitmap, a connectivity matrix, and fragmentation information, where the mark bitmap describes marked words and unmarked words for the old regions. The method further includes identifying a fragmented region in the old regions based on the fragmentation information, where the fragmented region includes at least one of the marked words. The method further includes copying the at least one of the marked words to a new region allocated from a pool of free regions, designating each of the unmarked words not in the fragmented region as free, adjusting a cross-region reference to the fragmented region in the marked words to point to the new region... |
| Medical devices having a bioresorbable coating layer with a pre-determined pattern for fragmentation | 20090274743 | 20091105 |
| Intravascular medical devices comprising a coating layer disposed on a substrate associated with the medical device, wherein the coating layer has a pre-determined fragmentation pattern. At least a portion of the coating layer comprises a plurality of discontinuous bioresorbable members, wherein the discontinuous bioresorbable members have a size less than the luminal diameter of an arteriole. The coating layer may be formed by excavating portions of a coating layer (e.g., by laser ablation) to create gaps which define the discontinuous bioresorbable members. In certain embodiments, the coating layer is formed of a heat-bondable material. In such embodiments, the discontinuous bioresorbable members may be adhered to the substrate via heat bonds. Also disclosed are methods of forming a coating layer on medical devices and methods of treating... |
| Mass spectrometry precursor ion selection | 20080315081 | 20081225 |
| The present invention is concerned with methods for the selection of precursor ions of a sample polypeptide for fragmentation in mass spectrometry, together with methods for determining at least one putative amino acid sequence for a sample polypeptide, apparatus and computer programs for same.
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| Protein cleavage at aspartic acid using chemical reagents | 20080318262 | 20081225 |
| The present invention relates to the methods of identifying and quantifying polypeptides in a given sample by mass spectrometric analysis. More specifically, the invention provides the methods for sample preparation for proteomic analysis: the methods for the fragmentation of proteins into peptides with the specific cleavage rule (cleavage at amino-terminal or carboxyl-terminal of aspartic acid), which are suitable for the analysis by mass spectrometry apparatus.
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| Adaptive transmission rate and fragmentation threshold mechanism for local area networks | 20080310488 | 20081218 |
| An apparatus for adjusting the transmission bit rate and fragmentation threshold of a wireless station in response to transmission errors is disclosed. In particular, the illustrative embodiment of the present invention is based on a wireless station that employs both an IEEE 802.11 radio and a Bluetooth radio, and determines whether transmission errors of the IEEE 802.11 radio are due to fading, or interference from the Bluetooth radio. It will be clear to those skilled in the art how to make and use alternative embodiments of the present invention for protocols other than IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth, as well as stations that employ wireline or non-RF-wireless transceivers.
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| Photoinduced signal amplification through externally sensitized photofragmentation in masked photosensitizers | 20080312092 | 20081218 |
| A method of photochemically amplifying the chemical signal associated with unmasking a photosensitizer and releasing a radical leaving group when a photochemical chain reaction is initiated by a sensitizer attached to a molecule of interest is provided. More specifically, provided is a method of photoinduced amplification comprising: providing a plurality of masked photosensitizers, each masked photosensitizer having a masking group bonded to a photosensitizer through a releasable covalent bond which disrupts the conjugation of the photosensitizer; providing a reaction photosensitizer in releasing proximity to a first masked photosensitizer; exciting the reaction photosensitizer with photoradiation, whereby the reaction photosensitizer induces release of the masking group from the first masked photosensitizer, producing a first unmasked photosensitizer which induces release of the masking group from a second masked photosensitizer... |
| Retrograde cutting instrument | 20080306483 | 20081211 |
| An instrument for retrograde cutting of sockets or tunnels in bone for arthroscopic tenodesis. A retrograde cutter is used to form a recipient site socket from the inside out, i.e., using a retrograde technique, with minimal incisions of distal cortices and reduced intraarticular bone fragmentation of tunnel rims. The retrograde cutter is provided with a cutting blade that is configured to engage the shaft of the instrument and to lock onto the shaft.
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| Rf surfaces and rf ion guides | 20080296495 | 20081204 |
| Apparatus and methods are provided for trapping, manipulation and transferring ions along RF and DC potential surfaces and through RF ion guides Potential wells are formed near RF-field generating surfaces due to the overlap of the radio-frequency (RF) fields and electrostatic fields created by static potentials applied to surrounding electrodes. Ions can be constrained and accumulated over time in such wells During confinement, ions may be subjected to various processes, such as accumulation, fragmentation, collisional cooling, focusing, mass-to-charge filtering, spatial separation ion mobility and chemical interactions, leading to improved performance in subsequent processing and analysis steps, such as mass analysis. Alternatively, the motion of ions may be better manipulated during confinement to improve the efficiency of their transport to specific locations, such as an entrance aperture... |
| Vehicle-network defensive aids suite | 20080291075 | 20081127 |
| A defensive aids suite for light armored vehicles utilizes four complementary sensor technologies including: visible and infrared optics, radar, acoustics and both laser and millimeter wave detection. Targeting and maneuvering optics are used for long-range threat detection with obscuration grenades and vehicle countermaneuvers being used to avoid a threat. Short range search and track radar is used with explosive or fragmentation grenades selected and launched to intercept and defeat the threat. Acoustic threat detection increases robustness and extends the detection range to include small calibers threats. Detection of active targeting systems by laser and radar warning receivers provides cueing information for targeting optics and fire control systems.
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| Photolabile system with instantaneous fluorescence reporting function | 20080293153 | 20081127 |
| A method of photofragmentation is provided comprising: providing a masked fluorescent molecule having a masking group bonded to a fluorescent molecule through a photolabile covalent bond; exposing the masked fluorescent molecule to cleaving photoradiation, producing an unmasked fluorescent molecule; detecting the fluorescence of the unmasked fluorescent molecule. The photolabile covalent bond disrupts the conjugation of the fluorescent molecule, causing the fluorescence to be masked. When the photolabile covalent bond is broken, the conjugation is restored, resulting in an increase in fluorescence of the fluorescent molecule as compared to the masked fluorescent molecule.
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| Defragmenting blocks in a clustered or distributed computing system | 20080294872 | 20081127 |
| Embodiments of the invention provides techniques for defragmenting blocks of resources allocated to perform computing jobs on a distributed or clustered system so that more contiguous physical resources may be made available to users submitting new job requests. Typically, the defragmentation process is performed when a job is submitted that requires access to a computing block that is larger than any currently available block in the parallel computing system.
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| Method for operating a fragmentation system and system therefor | 20080283639 | 20081120 |
| The invention relates to a method for operating an electrodynamic fragmentation system. The fragmentation product arranged in the process fluid is permanently suspended and forms a suspension with the process fluid. The portion of the processed fragmentation product which attains the target particle size or smaller is discharged from the reaction vessel and the fragmentation product exceeding the target particle size is supplied to the reaction area. The fragmentation system comprises a chargeable electric energy store, a pair of electrodes connected thereto, and both ends thereof are arranged at a distance from each other in the process fluid contained in the reaction vessel. The fragmented product is separated in a solid and liquid manner in a separator in the electrode intermediate chamber until it reaches the... |
| Method, system and securing means for data archiving with automatic encryption and decryption by fragmentation of keys | 20080285754 | 20081120 |
| In the method for data archiving with automatic en- and decryption data (9, 10) are exchanged between a client station (1) and an archive station (4). A securing means (2) connected between the stations (1, 4) encrypts the plain data (9) which are transmitted towards the archive station (4) and decrypts the encrypted data (10) which are transmitted towards the client station (1). The encryption is carried out with at least two keys (6, 7). One of the two keys (6, 7) is swapped out by transmitting it to the archive station (4) and deleting it locally, i.e. in the securing means (2), after the encryption. If the securing station (2) is stolen, the encrypted data (10) on the archive station (4) can be accessed, however... |
| Optical line terminal capable of active bandwidth allocation for passive optical network system | 20080279554 | 20081113 |
| In a GPON system conforming to ITU-T Recommendations G.984.3, an optical line terminal is provided which has an active bandwidth allocation function that preferentially puts small bandwidth signals in a particular segment of a frame, e.g., at a head of the frame, to prevent fragmentations that may occur particularly when allocating small bandwidths of about 100 kbits/s.
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| Engine-driven vehicle with exhaust emission control | 20080271438 | 20081106 |
| A method and an arrangement are provided for maintaining the oxidation of NO to NO2 in an oxidation catalytic converter arranged in a vehicle, the vehicle including an internal combustion engine which in operation emits exhaust gases to an exhaust gas after treatment system including the oxidation catalytic converter. A predetermined quantity of hydrocarbon is delivered to the exhaust gas aftertreatment system or the engine over at least one predetermined time interval for the purpose of maintaining the working temperature or regenerating an exhaust gas aftertreatment unit. The quantity of hydrocarbon is delivered to the exhaust gas aftertreatment system or to the engine through an injection with at least one predetermined fragmentation frequency and an injection period in order to maintain an NO2 production in the... |
| Method and device for controlling and/or putting out fires | 20080271900 | 20081106 |
| The object of the inventive method and device for controlling and/or extinguishing fires is to extend the range of means for transporting devices to a fire site, substantially reduce the time for the operating preparation thereof and to exclude a fragmentation field caused by the device explosion which ensures the momentary conversion of a fire-extinguishing composition into a fine cloud associated with a simultaneous airblast effect produced to a fire area and a maximum distribution of said fire-extinguishing composition through the fire volume. Said method for controlling and/or putting out a fire consists in effecting the fire area by an airblast and the high-speed flow of the air-dispersed mixture of the fire-extinguishing composition (7) produced by the explosion of a fire-suppressing device (2) which comprises a... |
| Cell death-inducing agents | 20080274110 | 20081106 |
| To identify antigens of the 2D7 antibody, the present inventors cloned the 2D7 antigen. As a result, the 2D7 antibody was found to recognize HLA class IA. In addition, the present inventors examined whether the 2D7 antibody has cell death-inducing activity. Nuclei fragmentation was observed when the 2D7 antibody was cross-linked with another antibody, indicating that cell-death was induced. Further, diabodies of the 2D7 antibody were found to have very strong cell death-inducing activities, even without the addition of another antibody. These results indicate that minibodies of an HLA-recognizing antibody can be used as cell death-inducing agents.
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| Methods and compositions for inhibiting abad/abeta protein interaction | 20080274975 | 20081106 |
| This invention provides methods, compositions and articles of manufacture for inhibiting binding between Aβ protein and ABAD in cells. Uses of this invention include, for example, treating Alzheimer's disease; reducing free radical generation, DNA fragmentation, and cytochrome C release in cells; and preserving cell viability by preventing LDH release from a cell.
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| Aromatic sulfenates for type i phototherapy | 20080275017 | 20081106 |
| Novel sulfenate derivatives and their bioconjugates for phototherapy of tumors and other lesions. The sulfenates of the present invention are designed to absorb low-energy ultraviolet, visible, or near-infrared (NIR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The phototherapeutic effect is caused by direct interaction of free radicals, the reactive intermediate produced upon photofragmentation of the sulfenate moiety, with the tissue of interest.
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| Stent | 20080269872 | 20081030 |
| A stent comprising an essentially tubular open supporting structure (4) of interconnected trusses (9), whereby the supporting structure (4) can be widened radially with deformation of the trusses (9) for application of the stent, and predetermined breaking points (14) in the supporting structure (4) for fragmentation of the stent after application, and the ends (10, 11) of the trusses (9) that are adjacent to the respective predetermined breaking point (14) having a joint design and which are provided in the area of the predetermined breaking point (14), such that the ends (10, 11) of the trusses (9) are held together with articulation under an applied pressure with the predetermined breaking point (14) broken.
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| Data processing system and method for memory defragmentation | 20080270676 | 20081030 |
| A data processing system is provided in a stream-based communication environment. The data processing system comprises at least one processing unit (PU1, PU2) for a stream-based processing of a plurality of processing jobs (J1-J5), a memory means (MEM) having an address range; and a plurality of FIFOs memory mapped to part of the address range of the memory means (MEM), respectively. Each of the FIFOs is associated to one of said plurality of processing jobs (j1-j5) to enable their communication. An address translation unit (ATU) is provided for identifying address ranges in the memory means (MEM) which are not currently used by the plurality of FIFOs and for moving the address range of at least one FIFO to a currently unused address range in the memory... |
| Information processing apparatus and firmware updating method | 20080270685 | 20081030 |
| According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes a controller configured to execute processing based on firmware stored in a nonvolatile memory, a storage device configured to store updating data to update the firmware and update application code, and a processor configured to execute processing to pose a state of no-fragmentation of the update application code and the updating data, processing to acquire address information showing storage places of the update application code and the updating data, processing to write updating information including address information of the update application code and the updating data, processing to load the update application code in the storage device in a memory on the basis of the updating information, and processing to update the firmware by using the updating... |
| Methods for generating polynucleotides having desired characteristics by iterative selection and recombination | 20080261833 | 20081023 |
| A method for DNA reassembly after random fragmentation, and its application to mutagenesis of nucleic acid sequences by in vitro or in vivo recombination is described. In particular, a method for the production of nucleic acid fragments or polynucleotides encoding mutant proteins is described. The present invention also relates to a method of repeated cycles of mutagenesis, shuffling and selection which allow for the directed molecular evolution in vitro or in vivo of proteins.
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| Method for removing permanent tissue markings | 20080262483 | 20081023 |
| A method of removing markings, such as a tattoos, from the tissue of a subject that includes steps of generating one or more shock wave pulses external to the subject's body and focusing the one or more shock wave pulses within one or more portions of the tissue, each of the one or more portions of the tissue containing at least a portion of the markings. The markings are typically caused by a plurality of pigment particles contained in the tissue, and the focusing step causes fragmentation of the particles so that they can be eliminated by the body.
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| File profiling to minimize fragmentation | 20080263059 | 20081023 |
| A storage device implements a file profiling mechanism to minimize fragmentation. A plurality of files is organized according to a high or low read/write access frequency. A plurality of unchanging file types are placed in a first grouping. A plurality of oscillating file types are placed in a second grouping adjacent to the first grouping. A plurality of the high frequency read/write access files which are growing file types are placed in a third grouping adjacent to the second grouping. A remainder of the growing file types not placed in the third grouping is defragmented. The remainder of the growing file types is then placed in a fourth grouping adjacent to the third grouping.
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| Composite solid state drive identification and optimization technologies | 20080263569 | 20081023 |
| Technologies for an operating system identifying SSD and CSSD devices based on a corresponding descriptor, and for optimizing operating system functionalities with respect to the SSD/CSSD device. Optimizations include disabling non-SSD/CSSD functionalities, such as HDD defragmentation, and by enabling SSD/CSSD specific functionalities, such as write optimization storage functionalities.
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| Synchronous adaptive harq | 20080253326 | 20081016 |
| Synchronous adaptive HARQ is utilized to mitigate resource fragmentation. Bitmaps are utilized instead of scheduling uplink grants for retransmission. The location of one or more resource blocks can be changed if there is a release of resources in a location of a corresponding resource block. Changing the location of the one or more resource blocks can group the resource blocks toward a first end of a spectrum. The bitmap can include a retransmission offset and a signal that indicates a direction with respect to the retransmission offset. The direction can be a positive direction or a negative direction.
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| Method of blasting | 20080245254 | 20081009 |
| Methods of blasting rock are disclosed and claimed in which blast holes are arranged in group of 2 to 7 blast holes. Within each of the groups, adjacent columns of explosive material (12) are actuated within 5 ms of one another Initiation of blasting between the respective groups occurs at least 8 ms after completion of initiation of an adjacent group. Initiation devices (13, 24) may be located at the lower end, upper end or both ends of the respective blast holes, depending on the stress field that is intended to be generated within the rock. As a result, environmental stresses such as ground vibrations are reduced, and the efficiency of rock fragmentation are increased.
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| Method and system for communicating h.263 macroblock boundaries using h.221 bas for rfc2190-compliant fragmentation | 20080240123 | 20081002 |
| A method includes receiving a Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) packet at a first gateway and translating the RTP packet into a H.221 frame. The H.221 frame includes a H.263-compressed video bitstream. The H.221 frame may also include a H.221 Bit-Rate Allocation Signal (BAS) message to communicate RFC2190-compliant fragmentation boundary information containing Macroblock (MB) boundary to a second gateway, if there is no picture start code (PSC) or Group of Block start code (GBSC) at a start portion of the RTP packet. The method further includes transmitting the H.221 frame from the first gateway to the second gateway; and fragmenting the H.263 video bitstream contained in the H.221 frame at a PSC, a GBSC, or a Macroblock (MB) boundary contained in the H.221 BAS fragmentation message.
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| Protease inhibitor sample collection system | 20080241001 | 20081002 |
| A collection container and a method for collecting a biological sample, particularly whole blood, includes at least one stabilizing agent in an amount effective to stabilize and inhibit protein degradation and/or fragmentation. The stabilizing agent is able to stabilize proteases in the biological sample, particularly at the point of collection, by inhibiting protein degradation and/or fragmentation in the sample when the sample is stored. The stabilizing agent comprises or consists of one or more protease inhibitors.
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| Methods and apparatus for thrombectomy system | 20080243153 | 20081002 |
| In certain embodiments, the system is configured to remove from or fragment materials in a vessel by inserting a catheter into a vessel, wherein the distal tip of the catheter is placed at the surgical site and a liquid spray is applied to materials to remove or fragment (as defined herein) the materials. In certain embodiments, the system comprises a liquid spray emanating from a fragmentation lumen and across a fragmentation opening.
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| Eliminating fragmentation with buddy-tree allocation | 20080244210 | 20081002 |
| This disclosure describes solutions for reducing the amount of fragmentation on a computer memory device, such as a hard disk, random access memory device, and/or the like. In an aspect, this disclosure describes systems, methods and software for allocating storage space for variable-sized data chunks in a fashion that reduces or eliminates the need for periodic de-fragmentation of the memory device. In another aspect, this disclosure describes solutions that provide for the dynamic re-allocation of existing data blocks on the memory device to provide contiguous available space that can be allocated for new data blocks.
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| High-q pulsed fragmentation in ion traps | 20070295903 | 20071227 |
| Rapid and efficient fragmentation of ions in an ion trap for MS/MS analysis is achieved by a pulsed fragmentation technique. Ions of interest are placed at an elevated value of Q and subjected to a relatively high amplitude, short-duration resonance excitation pulse to cause the ions to undergo collision-induced fragmentation. The Q value of the ions of interest is then reduced before significant numbers of ion fragments are expelled from the ion trap, thereby decreasing the low-mass cutoff and allowing retention and subsequent measurement of lower-mass ion fragments.
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| Memory management with defragmentation in a computing device | 20070294550 | 20071220 |
| Data held in physical memory, such as random access memory, in a computing device is defragmented when a system operating code null thread, which is used for placing the computing device into a reduced power mode when no other thread in the system is ready to run, is scheduled to run.
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| Technique for efficiently avoiding transient routing disturbances in link state routing protocols with link state packet fragmentation | 20070286091 | 20071213 |
| A technique efficiently avoids transient routing disturbances in link state routing protocols with fragmented link state packets (LSPs) in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a link state router (LSR) specifies which of two or more links are to be advertised in each of two or more corresponding LSP fragments. The LSR advertises the states of the specified links in the corresponding LSP fragments to one or more other LSRs. In other words, each link of the LSR is assigned to a particular LSP fragment, and the state of the link is always to be advertised in that particular LSP fragment (i.e., no fragment wrapping). Upon receiving the LSP fragments, the other LSRs may update the correct link states based on the individual LSP... |
| Contact methods for formation of lewis gas/liquid systems and recovery of lewis gas therefrom | 20070287812 | 20071213 |
| The invention relates to an improvement in apparatus and process for the formation of a complex of Lewis acidic or Lewis basic gases in a reactive liquid of opposite character and for the breaking (fragmentation) of said complex associated with the recovery of the Lewis gas therefrom. The improvement resides in forming finely divided droplets of reactive liquid and controlling the temperature, pressure and concentration of said Lewis gas of opposite character to provide for (a) the formation of said complex between said gas and reactive liquid or (b) the breaking of said complex and the recovery of the atomized droplets of reactive liquid.
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| Apparatus and method for the treatment of tissue with ultrasound energy by direct contact | 20070287934 | 20071213 |
| Apparatus and method for the treatment of tissue, such as hard and soft tissues, wounds, tumors, muscles, and cartilage, through the direct contact of ultrasound energy is disclosed. Ultrasound energy is delivered to a target area through direct contact with an ultrasound tip. Ultrasound energy is also delivered through direct contact with a coupling medium. The ultrasound tip is specially designed to comprise of a cavity area for controlled fragmentation and the simultaneous sonication of a target area. The specially designed ultrasound tip allows for ultrasound energy to focus on a target area. The ultrasound apparatus may be moved in a variety of different directions during the treatment of tissue.
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| Approach for de-fragmenting physical memory by grouping kernel pages together based on large pages | 20070288719 | 20071213 |
| An approach for de-fragmenting physical memory generally involves grouping kernel pages together based on large pages. The de-fragmentation procedure is triggered, such as by a kernel page-freelist being empty. The first user page from a user page-freelist is selected, marked as a kernel page (e.g., by setting a P_KERNEL bit), added to the kernel page-freelist, and then the large page in which the selected page is identified. Starting with the first small page within the large page, the small pages are processed by the de-fragmentation procedure, resulting in as many small pages as possible being marked as kernel pages and then added to the kernel page-freelist. Later, when a large page is coalesced, the number of kernel pages that must be relocated within the large page... |
| Power consumption decrease memory management method | 20070288783 | 20071213 |
| The power consumed by a memory is reduced without affecting the performance whereby a processor accesses the memory. A state of a power supplied to the memory is controlled to one of an active state wherein a storage area included in the memory rank can be accessed from the processor, and an inactive state wherein access cannot be performed without a delay for each memory rank, the basic system software prevents fragmentation in which the allocated storage area spans a plurality of memory ranks, puts the power state of a memory rank which does not include an allocated storage area into the inactive state, and puts the power state of a memory rank which includes a storage area required for allocation first into the active state.
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| Ion implantation ion source, system and method | 20070278417 | 20071206 |
| Limiting charge-exchange and low energy electron-induced fragmentation of B10Hx+; Operating the ion source without an arc plasma, which can improve the emittance properties and the purity of the beam; Operating the ion source without use of a strong applied magnetic field, which can improve the emittance properties of the beam; Using a novel approach to produce electron impact ionizations without the use of an arc discharge, by incorporation of an externally generated, broad directional electron beam which is aligned to pass through the ionization chamber to a thermally isolated beam dump; Providing production-worthy dosage rates of boron dopant at the wafer; Providing a hardware design that enables use also with other dopants, especially using novel hydride, dimer-containing, and indium- or antimony-containing temperature-sensitive starting materials, to further... |
| Process for recovery of the silica present in the separators between the elements of lead-acid batteries | 20070280871 | 20071206 |
| A process for recovery of the silica present in the separators located between the elements of lead-acid batteries characterized in that it comprises the following operations: a) washing the heavy plastics to remove the lead compounds and other foreign bodies, b) separating the plastics from the washing solution, c) lead recovery and regeneration of the washing solution, d) rinsing of the plastics, e) drying of the plastics, f) separation of the granular plastics from the thin plastics (polyethylene with silica filler, PVC, fabrics) by drawing them up in a flow of air making use of the shape effect, g) separation of the PVC and fabrics from the polyethylene with silica filler through fragmentation, h) pyrolysis of the polyethylene with silica filler, i) cracking of the pyrolysis... |
| Continuous carbonization processing by internal heat type self-substained combustion system | 20070281268 | 20071206 |
| The present invention provides a processing method which can process biomass resources to a carbide having a uniformity and including a large amount of high-carbon charcoal, can hold down an initial cost while capable of executing a large amount of process (for example, 100 ton per day), has a low running cost while can suppress a fuel consumption to a significantly low level, and can continuously carbonize a object having a high water content, having an unstable shape and having a high viscosity such as a sewage sludge even being a simple structure. The carbonization processing method has the steps of (i) continuously supplying a processing object M which is not preliminarily treated, or a processing object M which is formed at a predetermined magnitude by... |
| Procedure for the determination of fragmentation of dna in animal sperm | 20070281298 | 20071206 |
| The present invention describes a method for the determination of DNA fragmentation in animal sperm. It particularly refers to a procedure to evaluate the integrity of the chromatin/DNA of the sperm by means of a treatment of the sample with a denaturing solution followed, optionally by a stain; a subsequent treatment with a lysis solution that does not contain a protein denaturing detergent, followed, optionally, by a stain; and an evaluation of the integrity of the chromatin/DNA. The present invention also refers to a Kit to evaluate the quality of the sperm of animals which includes a DNA denaturing solution and a lysis solution that does not contain a protein denaturing detergent.
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| High molecular weight chelation structure | 20070274945 | 20071129 |
| A chelation structure and method of forming and using the chelation structure. The chelation structure has a backbone that includes a linear sequence of monomeric backbone units, at least one polymer side chain, and at least one chelator side chain. The side chains are each covalently coupled to the backbone at one of the monomeric backbone units by a bond that is independently biodegradable or non-biodegradable. The chelation structure is synthesized by Radical Addition Fragmentation Transfer (RAFT), Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP), or Free Radical Polymerization (FRP). The chelation structure, individually or in combination with a shuttle chelator, may be introduced into a mammal to bind an amount of a substance in a mammal, the substance being at least one of a metal and heme. The... |
| Flexible ultrasonic wire in an endoscope delivery system | 20070276255 | 20071129 |
| The flexible ultrasound wire delivered through an endoscope can bend through multiple radii and deliver ultrasonic energy to the business end of the working channel of an endoscope without requiring percutaneous incisions. The flexible ultrasonic wire is wire or fiber that can be flexed in any direction and is connected at one end to an ultrasonic transducer which is connected to an energy delivering device. An insulating layer between the flexible ultrasonic wire and a metallic working channel is non-metallic and resilient and operates to prevent unwanted fragmentation of the device and possible collateral soft tissue injuries.
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| Secure storage of data in a network | 20070271349 | 20071122 |
| A method of storing an item of data is described, performed in a general purpose computer in a network, and comprises identifying available storage means in the network, gathering information concerning the availability of data storage capacity in the identified available storage means, fragmenting the item of data in accordance with a fragmentation policy and distributing resultant fragments of data, in accordance with a distribution policy, among the identified available storage means. A computer apparatus is also described, operable in a network for managing and effecting storage of an item of data in a remote storage location in said network, and comprises storage space identification means for identifying network accessible storage means in the network, storage availability information gathering means for gathering information concerning the availability... |
| Method for producing metal strips | 20070262123 | 20071115 |
| The invention relates to a method for joining cathode metal sheets to form crude strips that can be coiled and rolled and for the production of metal strips of a constant thickness from crude strips that have been produced from cathode metal sheets of varying thicknesses. The aim of the invention is to produce metal strips of a high purity that are devoid of non-metallic inclusions. Strips produced in prior art are either limited in their dimensions, or a high-purity and the elimination of inclusions can only be achieved with high scrap rates and high production costs. The former case applies to the production of a strip from a single cathode metal sheet and the latter case to strips produced by fusion metallurgy. The method aims... |
| Ion implantation ion source, system and method | 20070262262 | 20071115 |
| Limiting charge-exchange and low energy electron-induced fragmentation of B10Hx+; Operating the ion source without an arc plasma, which can improve the emittance properties and the purity of the beam; Operating the ion source without use of a strong applied magnetic field, which can improve the emittance properties of the beam; Using a novel approach to produce electron impact ionizations without the use of an arc discharge, by incorporation of an externally generated, broad directional electron beam which is aligned to pass through the ionization chamber to a thermally isolated beam dump; Providing production-worthy dosage rates of boron dopant at the wafer; Providing a hardware design that enables use also with other dopants, especially using novel hydride, dimer-containing, and indium- or antimony-containing temperature-sensitive starting materials, to further... |
| Method for transmitting data available in the form of data packets | 20070263542 | 20071115 |
| In a system in which several data links are available for the transmission while one respective sending unit is allocated to the data links to temporarily store data that is to be transmitted via the respective data link, data packets containing non-real-time critical data are subdivided into fragments of variable sizes prior to forwarding to a sending unit. Data packets containing real time-critical data are preferably forwarded to a sending unit without being fragmented. Additionally, a minimum fragment size can be predefined for the fragmentation process.
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| Nano-chem-fet based biosensors | 20070264634 | 20071115 |
| Methods of detecting a component of interest, a change in charge, a pH, a cellular response using nanosensors are provided. Nanosensors, including nanowires and nanowire arrays comprising functionalized and/or non-functionalized nanowires are provided. Nanosensors are, used for detection in cellular fragmentation, multiple concentration analysis, glucose detection, and intracellular analysis.
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| Body armor strand structure, method and performance | 20070259179 | 20071108 |
| Structure, methodology and performance involving and utilizing body armor strand material which includes an elongate strand body possessing elongate brittle ceramic surface structure, elongate ductile core structure disposed within that surface structure, and elongate brittle/ductile transition structure operatively interposed and joining the surface and core structures. Methodology includes the steps of preparing a defined mass of elongate ceramic-surfaced, ductile-cored strand elements, each including, along the outside of its length, elongate, sharp-angular edges, and placing that mass in the impact path of such a projectile in a manner whereby edges in the strands face the projectile impact path. Response performance of the invented strand material includes using fragmentation of a surface-hardened ceramic therein to dissipate energy, cutting an impacting projectile into fragments and deflecting those fragments, and... |
| Non-immunogenic, hydrophilic/cationic block copolymers and uses thereof | 20070259828 | 20071108 |
| The present invention provides novel non-immunogenic, hydrophilic/cationic block copolymers comprising a neutral-hydrophilic polymer and a cationic polymer, wherein both polymers have well-defined chain-end functionality. A representative example of such a block copolymer comprises poly(N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide) (PHPMA) and poly(N-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]methacrylamide) (PDMAPMA). Also provided is a synthesis method thereof in aqueous media via reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. Further provided are uses of these block copolymers as drug delivery vehicles and protection agents.
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| System and method for high throughput with remote storage servers | 20070260609 | 20071108 |
| A server storage infrastructure that provides a high throughput service for client machines accessing the server storage infrastructure. In preferred implementations, a file is fragmented into multiple file portions. Each of the multiple file portions is saved on separate storage servers of a storage server cluster. Fragmentation layout metadata is generated that describes the location in the storage server cluster and content of each of the multiple file portions. In response to a request from a client to one storage server of the storage server cluster, the multiple file portions are accessed from the separate storage servers from one storage server according to the fragmentation layout metadata.
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| System and method for fragmentation of mobile content | 20070260637 | 20071108 |
| A method and apparatus for fragmenting non-linear data for delivery in a dynamic content delivery architecture, the method comprising the steps of: analyzing metadata for the non-linear to determine how to fragment the non-linear data; partitioning the non-linear data in accordance with the metadata analysis creating partitioned segments; and defining navigation rules for the partition segments; the apparatus being a fragmentation module for use in a dynamic content delivery system, the fragmentation module comprising: a processor adapted to perform a metadata based analysis on content to be fragmented, the processor further adapted to partition the content into segments based on the metadata; and a segment navigation module, the segment navigation module adapted to define segment navigation rules for the segments.
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| Push framework for delivery of dynamic mobile content | 20070260674 | 20071108 |
| A push proxy and push client for use in a generic dynamic content delivery system the push proxy having: a content provider registration service provider interface, said service provider interface adapted to register said push proxy with content providers and to further receive channel metadata for the content providers; a channel metadata repository adapted to store said channel metadata received from the content providers; a content metadata extractor and cache module adapted to extract metadata for said push proxy from a content and metadata envelope received from the content providers, said content metadata extracting cache further adapted to cache said metadata on said push proxy; a content fragmentation module adapted to break a content and metadata envelope into segments; a deferred retrieval message store module adapted... |
| Mobility based apparatus and methods using dispersion characteristics, sample fragmentation, and/or pressure control to improve analysis of a sample | 20070252082 | 20071101 |
| The invention relates generally to devices and methods for displaying ion mobility based analysis information using a processor that processes data from an ion mobility based analyzer and a display that displays the processed data in a three-dimensional representation.
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| Peptide and protein fragmentation by lysine residue originated reactions | 20070249056 | 20071025 |
| A method of modifying protein samples that comprises combining the sample with a peroxycarbonate solution and inserting the sample into a mass spectrometer. The present invention also includes methods of N-terminus characterization.
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| Method to improve system dma mapping while substantially reducing memory fragmentation | 20070245041 | 20071018 |
| A method, system and computer program product for eliminating the latency in searching for contiguous memory space by an IO DMA request of a device driver. Three new application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided within the operating system (OS) code that allows the device driver(s) to (1) pre-request and pre-allocate the IO DMA address range from the OS during the IPL and maintain control of the address, (2) map a system (virtual/physical) address range to a specific pre-allocated IO DMA address range, and (3) free the pre-allocated IO DMA address space back to the kernel when the space is no longer required. Utilizing these APIs enables advanced IO DMA address mapping techniques maintained by the device drivers, and the assigned/allocated IO DMA address space is no... |
| Information recording method and apparatus, information reproducing method and apparatus | 20070245078 | 20071018 |
| An information recording method and apparatus and an information reproducing method and apparatus in which AV data can be recorded or reproduced temporally continuously without producing fragmentation. To this end, the apparatus includes a storage unit 7 at least including a management information region and a user data region made up of plural logical blocks, and a recording unit 9 for continuously recording information signals from a recording start logical block to a recording end logical block in the user data region of the storage unit 7 and again recording information signals from the recording start logical block.
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| Reinforced composite material explosion vent | 20070234655 | 20071011 |
| A non-metallic explosion vent is provided for protecting a confined space from a high overpressure condition. Reinforcing material having greater tensile strength than the resin, such as glass fiber roving, mesh or fabric, is embedded in the panel. An elongated, overall U-shaped groove extends inwardly from one of the surfaces of the panel through only a portion of the thickness of the panel. The groove interrupts the reinforcing material and defines a line of weakness that presents a relief area of the panel that opens under a predetermined overpressure condition. A plurality of spaced reinforcing components preferably overlie the groove, and optionally may extend across the relief area of the panel, transversely thereof and at an angle to one another. The reinforcing components contribute to control... |
| Method and system for rapid data-fragmentation analysis of a new technology file system (ntfs) | 20070226265 | 20070927 |
| A method and system for rapid data-fragmentation analysis of a New Technology File System (NTFS) is described. In one embodiment, the Master File Table (MFT) associated with a NTFS volume is analyzed to estimate the extent of data fragmentation on the NTFS volume, the analysis being performed substantially without using directory index information associated with the NTFS volume.
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| Method of optimising the performance of a computer and a main non-volatile memory unit optimised using specific-use sections | 20070226395 | 20070927 |
| A method is revealed to optimize the performance of a computer by establishing purpose-specific sections in its main non-volatile storage medium. This method creates a basic set of purpose-specific sections in order to store, separated at a physical level and at a logical level, basic elements associated to equipment operation such as operating system, dynamic files, applications and user related files; and, optionally, creates an additional set of purpose-specific sections to store other elements separated in like manner. A secondary method is also described to supplement the previous one, in order to quickly optimize an unlimited number of identical computers. In addition, the optimized main non-volatile storage medium that results from employing either of the previous methods is described. For users, owners and technicians of an... |
| Measurement of light fragment ions with ion traps | 20060289738 | 20061228 |
| The invention relates to methods for the measurement of fragment ion spectra in ion trap mass spectrometers in which fragment ions below a cut-off mass cannot normally be measured. The invention consists in measuring mass spectra including light fragment ions by briefly conducting the collisionally induced fragmentation—which is always brought about by a large number of collisions—at an unusual high RF storage voltage, which produces collisions more energetically than by conventional fragmentation, and then switching the RF voltage to a low RF voltage in a fast but controlled procedure. In this way light fragment ions are produced by double cleavages from metastable fragment ions with a certain half-life time. Since the cut-off mass for the storage capability is proportional to the RF storage voltage, reducing the... |
| Systems, processes, and products for storage and retrieval of electronic files | 20060294122 | 20061228 |
| A system and process that involve a digital computer storage comprising block locations having physical block addresses and logical block addresses representing a relational database configuration of cells at logical intersections of sequences of rows and columns that specify a sequence of records and a sequence of attributes. A key attribute is a unique identifier that corresponds to the date/time instance of entry of a selected record into the database system. The arrangement is such that a succession of records corresponds to a succession of date/time instances of entry into the database system. This arrangement facilitates selection of a range of electronic records that is outside a range of electronic records that may be subject to hardware or software malfunction or corruption, facilitates the timed periodic... |
| No-fragmentation micro mass spectrometer system | 20060284075 | 20061221 |
| A system for effecting a soft or gentle ionization technique to avoid fragmentation of analyte molecules provided to a micro mass spectrometer for analysis. To ionize the analyte molecules, the system may be based on proton transfer reaction (PTR) for ionization, UV light to generate either positive or negative ions, or E-field ionization. For example, with PRT, there may be a water generator for providing H2O to an ion generator. H3O+ may be provided by the generator to a charge transfer reactor that brings a stream of H3O+ molecules together with analyte molecules. Then, H+ atoms may be transferred from the H3O+ molecules to the analyte molecules without breaking up or fragmenting the respective analyte molecules. The ionized molecules may be provided to a micro mass... |
| Obtaining tandem mass spectrometry data for multiple parent ions in an ion population | 20060284080 | 20061221 |
| This invention relates to tandem mass spectrometry and, in particular, to tandem mass spectrometry using a linear ion trap and a time of flight detector to collect mass spectra to form a MS/MS experiment. The accepted standard is to store and mass analyze precursor ions in the ion trap before ejecting the ions axially to a collision cell for fragmentation before mass analysis of the fragments in the time of flight detector. This invention makes use of orthogonal ejection of ions with a narrow range of m/z values to produce a ribbon beam of ions that are injected into the collision cell. The shape of this beam and the high energy of the ions are accommodated by using a planar design of collision cell. Ions are... |
| Virtual mass spectrometry | 20060287834 | 20061221 |
| Systems, methods, computer programming product, and databases for virtual mass spectrometry (VMS) enable the identification of polypeptides in samples without acquisition of MS/MS fragmentation spectra. Methods according to the invention employ databases containing records corresponding to polypeptides potentially present in samples. In addition to identifying polypeptides, such databases may be used for other purposes, including for example to correct experimental data, e.g., for analytical systemic errors.
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| Osd deterministic object fragmentation optimization in a disc drive | 20060288156 | 20061221 |
| An apparatus comprises a storage medium, an arm for positioning a recording head adjacent to the storage medium, and a controller for receiving objects and for selecting blocks on the storage medium to be written by the recoding head based on information in the objects. A method for storing objects is also provided. In another aspect, the invention provides a method for writing data in data storage devices. The method comprises: receiving access commands for objects, selecting blocks on a storage medium to be written by a recording head based on information in the objects, and writing data from the objects to the selected blocks.
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| Access to fragmented database system | 20060282434 | 20061214 |
| A distributed database system returns a token which an application may use in consecutive requests to the distributed database system to by-pass a fragmentation layer or distribution functionality of the distributed database system.
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| Cell death-inducing agent | 20060275301 | 20061207 |
| To identify antigens of the 2D7 antibody, the present inventors cloned the 2D7 antigen. The results suggested that the 2D7 antigen is an HLA class I molecule. Based on this finding, the present inventors examined whether the 2D7 antibody has cell death-inducing activity. Nuclei fragmentation was observed when the 2D7 antibody was cross-linked with another antibody, indicating that cell-death was induced. Further, diabodies of the 2D7 antibody were found to have very strong cell death-inducing activities, even without the addition of another antibody. These results indicate that minibodies of an HLA-recognizing antibody can be used as cell death-inducing agents.
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| Multi-purpose single initiated tandem warhead | 20060266247 | 20061130 |
| A multi-purpose tandem warhead needing only a single initiation has a casing that forms front, middle and rear portions. A shaped charge is positioned in the rear portion of the casing and a fragmentation charge is positioned in the front portion of the casing. The middle portion between the front and rear portions is an open area that serves as a jet formation region. An impact switch is positioned at the front of the warhead. Upon impact with a target the impact switch sends a detonation signal to a detonator positioned at the rear end of the warhead causing the shaped charge to initiate. Upon the detonation of the rear shaped charge, a high-speed shaped-charge jet forms into the hollow jet formation region, penetrates into and... |
| Method for minimizing damage to a waste fragmentation machine | 20060266855 | 20061130 |
| A method for reducing impact damage to a waste fragmentation machine is provided in various embodiments. In general, material that is potentially ungrindable, e.g., unacceptably dense, may be inadvertently allowed to enter into the grinding chamber within the machine where it encounters a high-speed rotor. The high-speed rotor comprises rotor teeth that impact the material to fragment or comminute it to an acceptable size. A vibration detector is placed in proximity with the rotor's bearing(s) and, after taking a daily baseline sample, monitors the fragmentation process. If the vibration level goes beyond an alert upper limit, the operator may be alerted via visual and/or audible annunciation that potentially ungrindable material may be in the grinding or fragmenting chamber. The operator may then examine the waste material... |
| Detecting change in a transport protocol window size without data transmission | 20060268710 | 20061130 |
| A method detects a change in TCP receive window size while preventing fragmentation of data. A TCP stack receives a segment that advertises a receive window size of zero. If data needs to be sent, and only if so, a timer is started. When the timer expires, a TCP segment that contains a first sequence number value equal to second sequence number representing sent but unacknowledged data minus one, and a segment length value of zero, is sent. Without sending a fragment of data, this triggers a peer TCP process to send an updated window size. A TCP ACK segment is received and contains an updated receive window size. If the updated receive window size is greater than a specified value, then the data is sent.... |
| Isolation of cells from bone | 20060269527 | 20061130 |
| The present invention provides a method for isolating cells from bone(s) harvested from a mammal. The method comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining a bone(s) containing bone marrow from the mammal; (b) fragmentation of the bone(s); (c) washing the bone fragments produced from step (b) and recovery of dislodged cells; (d) treating the bone fragments with a composition to release cells adhered to the endosteal region of the bone; (e) harvesting the cells following treatment of the bone fragments according to step (d); and (f) optionally combining the cells from steps (c) and (e).
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| Precision fragmentation assemblages and olefin polymerization catalysts made therefrom | 20060270813 | 20061130 |
| A precision fragmentation assemblage is disclosed, along with precision fragmentation assemblage catalysts derivable therefrom. A method for the preparation of a precision fragmentation assemblage is also disclosed, along with a method for preparing precision fragmentation assemblage catalysts from precision fragmentation assemblages. A method is further disclosed for using precision fragmentation catalysts in the polymerization of olefins to produce polyolefins.
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| Information recording device and method for initializing the same | 20060271732 | 20061130 |
| According to one embodiment, there is provided an information recording device including a recording unit 18 which records information in a plurality of storage areas obtained by separating one recording medium by a plurality of continuous areas A to E and reproduces the information, a determining unit which determines whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied, and a control unit which, when it is determined that the predetermined condition is satisfied, performs a control to transfer information recorded in a storage area of one continuous area among the plurality of continuous areas to another storage area, and then initialize the storage area of the one continuous area. Automatic initialization for each continuous region makes it possible to avoid fragmentation of information (file), so that the... |
| Optical proximity correction using progressively smoothed mask shapes | 20060271905 | 20061130 |
| A method, program product and system is disclosed for performing optical proximity correction (OPC) wherein mask shapes are fragmented based on the effective image processing influence of neighboring shapes on the shape to be fragmented. Neighboring shapes are smoothed prior to determining their influence on the fragmentation of the shape of interest, where the amount of smoothing of a neighboring shape increases as the influence of the neighboring shape on the image process of the shape of interest decreases. A preferred embodiment includes the use of multiple regions of interactions (ROls) around the shape of interest, and assigning a smoothing parameter to a given ROI that increases as the influence of shapes in that ROI decreases with respect to the shape to be fragmented. The invention... |
| Methods and systems for fragmentation and reassembly for ip tunnels in hardware pipelines | 20060262808 | 20061123 |
| A novel flow-through architecture for fragmentation and reassembly of tunnel packets in network devices is presented. The fragmentation and reassembly of tunneled packets are handled in the hardware pipeline to achieve line-rate processing of the traffic flow without the need for additional store and forward operations typically provided by a host processor or a co-processor. In addition, the hardware pipeline may perform fragmentation and reassembly of packets using encrypted tunnels by performing segment-by-segment crypto. A network device implementing fragment reassembly can include an ingress hardware pipeline that reassembles fragmented packets between a media access control (MAC) of the device and an output packet memory of the device, where the incoming fragmented packets can be encrypted and/or tunneled. A network device implementing packet fragmentation can include an... |
| Defragmentation of communication channel allocations | 20060264177 | 20061123 |
| Approaches scheduling and allocation of communication bandwidth across a communication channel provide the opportunity for improved network utilization. A network device is configured to allocating its bandwidth utilization within a communication network, wherein bandwidth allocation is governed by a utilization policy. The network device conducts communication activities within the communication network. When the network device deviates from the utilization policy in scheduling or conducting network activities, a penalty can be imposed on the network device for deviating from the utilization policy. Where one or more network conditions exceed predetermined tolerance levels, the offending network device can be required to reallocate its scheduled activities.
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| Method and apparatus for process monitoring and control | 20060255260 | 20061116 |
| A method and apparatus for real-time monitoring of a gaseous environment during a semiconductor process. The method utilizes metastable electronic energy transfer to excite and ionize the chamber gaseous effluent and correlates the fluorescence signals from the excited species and mass spectroscopy analysis of the ions generated with the process status. In addition to the ability to produce excited species that fluoresce, the method has the ability to generate molecular ions from labile compounds, reduce fragmentation and operate at higher pressures than conventional ionization methods.
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| Method of identifying substances using mass spectrometry | 20060255263 | 20061116 |
| An object of the present invention is to provide a mass spectrometry system capable of improving an efficiency of obtaining information on a structure of substances, shortening a time taken for a measurement and substance identification, and improving identification accuracy. The system comprises: a process of mass analyzing an ionized analyte; a first fragmentation process where a first ion is selected from the ions observed in a mass spectrometry to fragment it; a process of mass analyzing a plurality of the ions generated in the first fragmentation process; a process of determining fragment ion combination capable of reconstructing the first ion using a result of the mass spectrometry; a second fragmentation process where the fragment ions contained in the fragment ion combination are fragmented; and a... |
| Dynamic te-lsp priority and preemption | 20060250961 | 20061109 |
| A technique dynamically assigns priorities to traffic engineering (TE) label switched paths (LSPs) from a head-end node of a computer network. The novel technique increases the ability to place TE-LSPs that would be otherwise blocked by bandwidth fragmentation. Specifically, a head-end node allocates a range of priority values for groups of possible TE-LSP configurations, such as, e.g., groups by type and/or size of the possible TE-LSPs. When requesting a TE-LSP, the head-end node attempts to establish the TE-LSP by dynamically increasing a priority value of the TE-LSP within the corresponding range of priority values until adequate resources are available, at which time the head-end node may establish the TE-LSP. Upon expiration of a configurable timer, the head-end node dynamically decreases the priority value of the established... |
| Multi-functional thrombectomy device | 20060253145 | 20061109 |
| A hand held motor powered device for percutaneous thrombolysis and evacuation of a clot from a clotted arterio-venous fistula is disclosed. The percutaneous thrombectomy device is provided with a plurality of nested coaxial lubricious catheters. The multi-functional thrombectomy device can simultaneously and sequentially degrade and evacuate a blood clot from a blood vessel by multiple modalities that combines to degrade the clot by mechanical agitation, fragmentation and disruption, by peri-thrombus delivery of enzymatic fluids, by irrigation with biocompatible fluids, and by balloon displacement. The thrombectomy device further provides for balloon containment and isolation of clot debris from the general circulation, thereby minimizing the risks to a patient of embolic sequelae. There is also provided an optional steering mechanism for controlled deflection of the working end of... |
| Method and apparatus for transmitting data | 20060245384 | 20061102 |
| Received data packets are channel-encoded prior to fragmentation so that large data packets, which would not otherwise fit within the available frame resources, are transmitted by fragmenting the channel-encoded physical layer packet. Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (H-ARQ) is then utilized to ensure reliability.
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| Apparatus for identifying peptides and proteins by mass spectrometry | 20060247865 | 20061102 |
| A method of identifying a protein, polypeptide or peptide by means of mass spectrometry and especially by tandem mass spectrometry is disclosed. The method preferably models the fragmentation of a peptide or protein in a tandem mass spectrometer to facilitate comparison with an experimentally determined spectrum. A fragmentation model is used which takes account of all possible fragmentation pathways which a particular sequence of amino acids may undergo. A peptide or protein may be identified by comparing an experimentally determined mass spectrum with spectra predicted using such a fragmentation model from a library of known peptides or proteins. Alternatively, a de novo method of determining the amino acid sequence of an unknown peptide using such a fragmentation model may be used.
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| Adaptive pre-fragmentation and pre-segmentation system and method | 20060248102 | 20061102 |
| A method and apparatus are disclosed for prefragmenting or presegmenting data. A data protocol type and length are provided. Based on the type and length, a linked list memory buffer structure is determined. Locations within the memory buffer structure for storage of data therein is also determined allowing for sufficient unused memory therein to support one of a fragmentation operation and a segmentation operation subsequent to memory allocation. As such, further memory allocation during a fragmentation operation or a segmentation operation is obviated. The determined memory buffer structure is then allocated.
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| Defragmentation of communication channel allocations | 20060239272 | 20061026 |
| Approaches scheduling and allocation of communication bandwidth across a communication channel provide the opportunity for improved network utilization. According to one embodiment, a method of allocating communication bandwidth among a plurality of network devices scheduling and conducting communication activities within the communication network in a communication network is provided. The method comprises the steps of: a first network device determining allocations of other network devices operating in the communication network; the first network device preempting a scheduled allocation of a second network device; and the first network device scheduling its communication activities on the communication network. Additionally, the first network device can also determine whether a conflict exists between its desired or required allocation and an allocation of the second network device.
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| Methods, systems, and computer program products for producing theoretical mass spectral fragmentation patterns of chemical structures | 20060241926 | 20061026 |
| Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating theoretical mass spectral fragmentation patterns of a chemical structure is provided. The method includes obtaining a description of a chemical structure and generating, from the description, a list of chemical structure information. A binary tree data structure is used to organize the list of chemical structure information. The binary tree data structure may be fragmented by determining, based on a set of predetermined rules, a fragmentation point between two nodes in the binary tree data structure thereby dividing the binary tree data structure into a fragment and a complement. The molecular formula and molecular weight of each fragment is determined. The binary tree data structure is traversed and appropriate fragmentation rules are applied to produce a plurality of... |
| Apparatus to transmit ofdm symbols with aligned fragmentation threshold | 20060215626 | 20060928 |
| In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a transmitter to transmit a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols with each of the OFDM symbols having a first number of bytes; and a controller, coupled to the transmitter, to determine an initial fragmentation threshold value having a second number of bytes. The controller is operable to increase the second number of bytes to generate an aligned fragmentation threshold value having an aligned number of bytes approximately equal to a multiple of the first number of bytes. The apparatus further includes a fragmentation module to fragment a data frame into a plurality of fragments in response to the aligned fragmentation threshold value.
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| Fragmentation of a file for instant access | 20060206889 | 20060914 |
| Techniques for fragmenting a file or a collection of media data are disclosed. According one aspect of the techniques, a file pertaining to a title is fragmented into a header and several tails or segments. The header is a continuous portion of the file while the segments are respective parts of the remaining portion of the file. The header is seeded substantially in all boxes, and none, one or more of the segments are distributed in each of the boxes in service. When a title is ordered, the header is instantly played back while the segments, if not locally available, are continuously fetched respectively from other boxes that have the segments.
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| Ion fragmentation by reaction with neutral particles | 20060192100 | 20060831 |
| The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the fragmentation of large molecules, especially biopolymers. The invention consists in reacting analyte ions with excited or radical neutral particles, whereby, at least in the case of bombardment of analyte ions with helium atoms from an FAB generator, a new type of fragmentation occurs which strongly resembles fragmentation by electron capture (ECD). The reactions may be performed in magnetic ion traps (ion cyclotron resonance cells, ICR), in RF ion traps according to Wolfgang Paul, in RF ion guides, or in free beams of analyte ions or neutral particles.
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| Apparatus and method for ion fragmentation cut-off | 20060192112 | 20060831 |
| A mass analyzer for isolating, fragmenting and scanning ions. The mass analyzer includes an ion trap having a first electrode, a second electrode adjacent to the first electrode, and a third electrode interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first RF source electrically connected to the first electrode and second electrode and a second RF voltage source electrically connected to the third electrode. The second RF voltage source provides for a second electrical field for fragmenting ions and broadens the potential application of the fragmentation cut-off of the device allowing for analysis of peptides and other complex molecules. The mass analyzer may be used independently or in combination with a mass spectrometry system. A method of ion fragmentation and cut-off is also disclosed.
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