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 Method and apparatus for controlling an electronic device | 20130150133 | 20130613 |
 An apparatus and method of an electronic device for controlling the electronic device are disclosed herewith. The method includes determining that the electronic device is engaged in a voice call. The method further includes detecting at least one object that covers at least a predetermined portion of a mouthpiece area of the electronic device while the electronic device is engaged in the voice call. Furthermore, the method activates an electronic mute feature of the electronic device in response to detecting the at least one object.
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| Projection display apparatus and control method therefor | 20130128241 | 20130523 |
 A projection display apparatus includes: a display element that displays an image; a lamp that illuminates the display element to cause the display element to emit an image light; a variable light intensity element that allows the light emitted from the lamp to pass therethrough, the intensity of light passing through the variable light intensity element being variable; and a light intensity controller that determines whether the display element is at an image mute state in which a full-black image is displayed, or at a normal lighting state other than the image mute state, and when the display element is at the image mute state, reduces the amount of power supplied to the lamp to a level that is lower than that of the normal lighting... |
| Audiovisual (av) device and control method thereof | 20130133021 | 20130523 |
 According to one embodiment, video image and audio signals are transmitted to a plurality of electronic devices each having at least one of a video image display function and an audio reproducing function. Information indicating the fact that at least one of a video image and audio has been set in a mute state is acquired from each of the electronic devices. Based on the information, a processing operation is applied to the video image and audio signals supplied to each of the electronic devices.
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| Device and method for de-blending simultaneous shooting data with apex shifted radon transform | 20130121110 | 20130516 |
 A device, medium and method for de-blending seismic data associated with a subsurface of the earth. The method includes receiving blended seismic data, wherein the blended seismic data includes traces having energies from two or more different shots that partially overlap; applying an apex-shifted radon transform (ASRT) to the blended seismic data to transform it from a first domain to a second domain; applying a mute processing for removing all shots except a first shot in the second domain; applying a reverse ASRT to the given shot to obtain the first shot in the first domain; and generating an image of the subsurface based on the first shot in the first domain. The procedure may be iteratively repeated to separate all shots.
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| Automatic resource measuring system | 20130103825 | 20130425 |
 The invention discloses an automatic resource measuring system, in other words an ARM system, to measure resources of a workflow or to form a workflow model for resource management in a distributed system. The ARM system is arranged to measure the distributed system to be examined and comprises radio transmitters which are station transmitters and task transmitters. Furthermore the ARM system comprises data collectors with a radio receiver for receiving the signals from the station transmitters and the task transmitters at the area of the station and a data server for receiving and processing the data collected by data collectors. The ARM system applies an interrupt signal to selectively mute task transmitters for a random time to avoid collision problems. The data collector transmits its arrival... |
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| Uplink noise minimization | 20130095870 | 20130418 |
| A method and apparatus for controlling uplink signal power in a distributed antenna system 10 having a master unit 22 and a plurality of remote units 14 and coupled with a base station 12 includes monitoring a noise condition of the distributed antenna system. The invention dynamically adjusts an uplink gain within the distributed antenna system 10 that is applied to uplink signals to a base station 12, based on the monitored noise condition. Monitoring the noise condition in the distributed antenna system 10 includes monitoring one or more remote units 14 of the plurality of remote units and determining if the remote unit is active status or mute status and then. The uplink gain is increased in response to a decrease in the number of... |
| System and method for inserting a control system into a conference | 20130061153 | 20130307 |
| A conference, such as an audio or video conference, is controlled by inserting a control sequenced application into a communication stream. A command is received at the control sequenced application from a user interface to control an aspect of the conference. For example, the command may be to mute a participant of the conference. The command is sent to a media server, which implements that command. The control sequenced application is typically inserted in between the media server and a conferencing application. In addition, the control sequenced application can be dynamically inserted into the communication stream.
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| Mute for brass instrument | 20130036895 | 20130214 |
| A mute detachably attached to a brass instrument includes a fixed part and a plurality of branch pipes, each including a main pipe and an auxiliary pipe. The branch pipes are unified together and inserted into a bell pipe of a brass instrument. The fixed part is attached to the tapered portion of a bell pipe and interposed between the interior of the bell pipe and the exterior of the main pipe. The branch pipe is designed such that the auxiliary pipe is connected to the main pipe at an interconnect part, at which an air flow propagating through the main pipe is partly branched into the auxiliary pipe.
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| Automatic mute detection | 20130029649 | 20130131 |
| A system and methodology for managing a mute function muting a connection to a conference call is disclosed. The system is implemented when the mute function is activated on a line connected to a conference call through a telecommunications network. The method includes receiving a sound, determining whether the sound meets predetermined criteria and if the sound meets predetermined criteria then performing a mute status operation.
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| Providing automatic power control for a power amplifier | 20130002357 | 20130103 |
| A power control circuit is coupled to receive a feedback signal from a power amplifier (PA) and generate a control signal to control a variable gain amplifier (VGA) coupled to an input to the PA based on the feedback signal. The power control circuit may include, in one embodiment, a mute circuit to generate a mute signal to be provided to the VGA when the control signal is less than a first level and a clamp circuit to clamp a control voltage used to generate the control signal from exceeding a threshold level.
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| Controlling a videoconference based on context of touch-based gestures | 20130002799 | 20130103 |
| Controlling a videoconference based on gestures received to a touch interface. A gesture may be received to a touch interface. In response to the gesture, a videoconference action may be performed. For example, a first gesture may be received to mute the videoconference and in response, the videoconference may be muted. As another example, a second gesture may be received to adjust the volume of the videoconference, and the volume may be correspondingly adjusted. Further, various gestures may be received for controlling one or more cameras in a videoconference, accessing settings in a videoconference, interacting with a presentation, etc.
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| Muting a videoconference using touch-based gestures | 20130002800 | 20130103 |
| Controlling a videoconference based on gestures received to a touch interface. A gesture may be received to a touch interface. In response to the gesture, a videoconference action may be performed. For example, a first gesture may be received to mute the videoconference and in response, the videoconference may be muted. As another example, a second gesture may be received to adjust the volume of the videoconference, and the volume may be correspondingly adjusted. Further, various gestures may be received for controlling one or more cameras in a videoconference, accessing settings in a videoconference, interacting with a presentation, etc.
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| Adjusting volume of a videoconference using touch-based gestures | 20130002801 | 20130103 |
| Controlling a videoconference based on gestures received to a touch interface. A gesture may be received to a touch interface. In response to the gesture, a videoconference action may be performed. For example, a first gesture may be received to mute the videoconference and in response, the videoconference may be muted. As another example, a second gesture may be received to adjust the volume of the videoconference, and the volume may be correspondingly adjusted. Further, various gestures may be received for controlling one or more cameras in a videoconference, accessing settings in a videoconference, interacting with a presentation, etc.
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| Accessing settings of a videoconference using touch-based gestures | 20130002802 | 20130103 |
| Controlling a videoconference based on gestures received to a touch interface. A gesture may be received to a touch interface. In response to the gesture, a videoconference action may be performed. For example, a first gesture may be received to mute the videoconference and in response, the videoconference may be muted. As another example, a second gesture may be received to adjust the volume of the videoconference, and the volume may be correspondingly adjusted. Further, various gestures may be received for controlling one or more cameras in a videoconference, accessing settings in a videoconference, interacting with a presentation, etc.
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| Terminal device and application control method | 20130005267 | 20130103 |
| A mobile telephone (1) includes a link establishment detection module (18) that detects establishment of a link with Bluetooth headphones (2), an application setting check module (17) that checks whether an application (12) to be started is set to inhibit playback through the Bluetooth headphones (2), a link termination control module (19) that terminates a link with the Bluetooth headphones (2) when establishment of the link with the Bluetooth headphones (2) is detected and setting to inhibit playback through the Bluetooth headphones (2) for the application (12) to be started is recognized, and a speaker control module (20) that switches output of the speaker (16) to mute when a link is terminated by the link termination control module (19).
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| System for detecting speech interval and recognizing continous speech in a noisy environment through real-time recognition of call commands | 20120316879 | 20121213 |
| A continuous speech recognition system to recognize continuous speech smoothly in a noisy environment. The system selects call commands, configures a minimum recognition network in token, which consists of the call commands and mute intervals including noises, recognizes the inputted speech continuously in real time, analyzes the reliability of speech recognition continuously and recognizes the continuous speech from a speaker. When a speaker delivers a call command, the system for detecting the speech interval and recognizing continuous speech in a noisy environment through the real-time recognition of call commands measures the reliability of the speech after recognizing the call command, and recognizes the speech from the speaker by transferring the speech interval following the call command to a continuous speech-recognition engine at the moment when the... |
| Enhanced identification system | 20120306625 | 20121206 |
| A method and an identification system used for communicating between a reader and a plurality of transponders are disclosed. The reader has a transmitter for transmitting a signal and each transponder includes a receiver for receiving the reader signal and a transmitter for generating a transponder signal. When the reader recognises a transponder signal from one of the transponders it immediately issues a mute instruction, muting all other active transponders and passing control to the said transponder, without the need for a specifically timed acknowledgement to the said controlling transponder. The reader may issue a single disable/wakeup instruction which disables the controlling transponder returning control to the reader and reactivated all muted (but not disabled) transponders.
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| Muting participants in a communication session | 20120308044 | 20121206 |
| In general, this disclosure describes techniques for muting participants in a communication session. A communication session, such as a teleconference or a video conference, may be established between a plurality of participants using devices. Each participant engaged in the communication session may be authorized to mute or un-mute other participants. Information related to the communication session may be provided to some of the participants, including but are not limited to, indications of when a participant is muted or un-muted, indications of which participant initiated a muting or un-muting, indications of volume of a participant, or indications of types of sounds in a communication session. Social controls, utilized through transparency (e.g., providing identifying indications), may reduce the chance of misuse of the muting functionality.
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| Dynamic adjustment of downlink/uplink allocation ratio in tdd wireless systems | 20120294206 | 20121122 |
| Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for dynamically changing downlink and uplink allocations can include operating a base station under time division duplexing to communicate with one or more mobile devices using a frame structure, adjusting a downlink-uplink ratio to change an allocation between uplink and downlink data capacities in the frame structure, determining a mute interval based on the adjusted downlink-uplink ratio, generating mute information based on the mute interval to identify the one or more areas of the frame structure effected by the allocation change, and transmitting the mute information to the one or more mobile devices.
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| Fmcw distance measuring method and devices | 20120283987 | 20121108 |
| A method of measuring the distance uses a terminal A and a terminal B, each terminal comprising an FMCW generator for generating a signal having a predetermined frequency to time function. Terminal A transmits a transmit signal in transmit periods, which alternate with mute periods without transmission. Terminal B shifts the received signal in time from a transmit period to a mute period, for example by generating a local periodic FMCW signal, determining an adaptation of the timing of that local periodic FMCW that is needed to bring it into a predetermined timing relation to the received signal and applying the adaptation in the mute period. Terminal B transmits the shifted signal, which is received by the receiver of terminal A. Terminal A measures the frequency... |
| Dj mixing headphones | 20120275615 | 20121101 |
| A set of headphones designed to be used by DJ's for the purpose of mixing two or more music tracks being played from two or more audio playing devices. The headphones are configured such that a DJ can easily mute one headphone speaker so that the DJ can listen to a first music track that is being played through a sound system. At the same time, the headphones are configured to direct the complete stereo signal to the other headphone speaker so that the DJ can listen to the complete audio from a second music track. For example, when the DJ presses an audio control button, the set of headphones can automatically mute one of the speakers on the headphones, and automatically direct all of the... |
| Multi-cell signaling of channel state information-reference signal and physical downlink shared channel muting | 20120264441 | 20121018 |
| This invention includes signaling schemes for communicating the PDSCH muting configuration from the eNodeB to its UEs so that they can measure inter-cell CSI if configured. The base station transmits to each served user equipment a number signal indicating a number of allowed muting configurations, parameters for each allowed muting configuration and an enable/disable signal. Each served user equipment mutes or does not mute a physical downlink shared channel according to one of the allowed muting configurations and the state of a corresponding bit of the enable/disable signal.
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| Method for handling collision in an identification system | 20120249308 | 20121004 |
| A method for handling collision in an identification system where the identification system includes a reader, a first transponder and a second transponder. The method involves the reader transmitting an initialization command to the first transponder and to the second transponder; upon receiving the initialization command, the first transponder and the second transponder enter into a muted state where the first transponder and the second transponder do not respond to commands from the reader; in a randomly determined first start time slot the first transponder enters into an un-muted state and the first transponder remains in the un-muted state until the reader sends a mute command to the first transponder; in a randomly determined second start time slot the second transponder enters into an un-muted state... |
| Audio driver circuit | 20120237057 | 20120920 |
| An audio driver circuit includes a comparison circuit, a power distributing circuit, and an audio output circuit. The comparison circuit at least includes a comparator included a non-inverting input, an inverting input, and an output. The non-inverting input is electrically connected to a drive power supply. The inverting input is electrically connected to a reference power supply. The output of the comparator is electrically connected to an input of the power distributing circuit. The audio driver circuit further includes a mute control circuit. An output of the power distributing circuit is electrically connected to the mute control circuit. An input of the audio output unit is also electrically connected to the mute control circuit.
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| Removable drum mute cover | 20120227568 | 20120913 |
| A drum mute that is functional in both muting and covering a drum head. A circular cut of fabric with an elastic encased outer edge is made to be fitted over an entire drum head and rim, thereby providing a muted sound while allowing the drummer to retain full drumstick rebound. Various sizes, designs, and types of fabric can be used to construct the drum mute. A drawstring, tie, or other adhesiveless means of fastening can be used in place of elastic to fasten the drum mute fabric cover to a drum.
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| Base station system and method for call setting up, handing over and releasing in hybrid network | 20120230294 | 20120913 |
| A base station system and method for call se ng up, handing over and releasing in hybrid network are disclosed. The base station system consists of BSC, TC, several BTSs and a band-width guaranteed IP network among them, IP mode transport and traditional TDM mode transport between BSC and TC are simultaneity supported in the system, and BTS supports TDM mode or IP mode. The invention is provided with such advantages: compatibility with TDM, which maximumly protects the providers' investment; smooth transition from TDM to IP, which decreases investing risk; flexible choice for different physical layer or data link layer transmission apparatuses to bear IP message, which facilitates the providers to constitute their networks. In IP mode, data service can share bandwidth with the mute frames... |
| Henb blind detection for hierarchy configuration | 20120224533 | 20120906 |
| It is provided an apparatus, comprising including deciding means configured to decide whether or not a predefined condition is met; receiving means configured to receive a first signal at predefined places; inhibiting means configured to inhibit sending a second signal at the predefined places, if the deciding means decides that the predefined condition is met; monitoring means configured to monitor, if the deciding means decides that the predefined condition is met, for at least two of the predefined places whether or not a first signal is received at the predefined places; defining means configured to define a first mute place based on the monitoring result of the monitoring means and a predefined rule, wherein the first mute place is one of the predefined places at which... |
| Communication apparatus and control method | 20120212409 | 20120823 |
| A communication apparatus includes a display unit, a communication unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays video data. The communication unit communicates with an external apparatus. The control unit controls the communication apparatus in accordance with a command received by the communication unit. If the display unit is in a mute state and the communication unit is sending the external apparatus the data for placing the external apparatus in a mute state, the control unit determines not to control the communication apparatus in accordance with the command.
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| Sound recognition operation apparatus and sound recognition operation method | 20120215537 | 20120823 |
| According to one embodiment, a sound recognition operation apparatus includes a sound detection module, a keyword detection module, an audio mute module, and a transmission module. The sound detection module is configured to detect sound. The keyword detection module is configured to detect a particular keyword using voice recognition when the sound detection module detects sound. The audio mute module is configured to transmit an operation signal for muting audio sound when the keyword detection module detects the keyword. The transmission module is configured to recognize the voice command after the keyword is detected by the keyword detection module, and transmit an operation signal corresponding to the voice command.
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| Intelligent keyboard interface for virtual musical instrument | 20120174735 | 20120712 |
| A user interface for a virtual musical instrument presents a number of chord touch regions, each corresponding to a chord of a diatonic key. Within each chord region a number of touch zones are provided, including treble clef zones and bass clef zones. Each treble clef touch zone within a region will sound a different chord voicing. Each bass clef touch zone will sound a bass note of the chord. Other user interactions can modify or mute the chords, and vary the bass notes being played together with the chords. A set of related chords and/or a set of rhythmic patterns can be generated based on a selected instrument and a selected style of music.
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| Audiovisual (av) device and control method thereof | 20110013877 | 20110120 |
| According to one embodiment, video image and audio signals are transmitted to a plurality of electronic devices each having at least one of a video image display function and an audio reproducing function. Information indicating the fact that at least one of a video image and audio has been set in a mute state is acquired from each of the electronic devices. Based on the information, a processing operation is applied to the video image and audio signals supplied to each of the electronic devices.
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| Systems and methods for facsimile echo cancellation | 20110013544 | 20110120 |
| The present invention is related to methods and systems for reducing or canceling echoes during fax communications. In an embodiment, during a fax call, a first fax signal from a first fax device intended for a second fax device is detected. Based at least in part on detecting the first fax signal from the first fax device or on the termination of the first fax signal, an echo audio packet is muted, wherein the echo audio packet is at least partly the result of the first fax signal being transmitted over a network, the network including at least a data network.
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| Recombinant attenuated clostridium organisms and vaccine | 20110008389 | 20110113 |
| The present invention discloses attenuated Clostridium perfringens organisms that express a substantially nontoxic alpha-toxin. The expressed alpha-toxin is a deletion mutein that relative to the alpha-toxin of the mature alpha-toxin of Clostridium perfringens strain 13, is missing at least nine consecutive amino acid residues including His68. The present invention also discloses attenuated organisms that encode the muteins, as well as the use of such attenuated organisms as vaccines.
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| Deterministic rotational coding | 20110007757 | 20110113 |
| A system and method for implementing a network encoding scheme includes buffering a signal in quantized form at a node of a network and permuting the signal into a particular order of code blocks. The code blocks are rotated using at least one key which has been assigned to the node, wherein the at least one assigned key is a value which is used to control the amount of rotation. The rotated code blocks are then combined to generate a combined signal. The combined signal is permuted back to generate at least one output signal.
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| Commuter vehicle | 20110006500 | 20110113 |
| Disclosed commuter vehicles include a chassis that includes a frame, opposed first and second steerable front wheels, a trailing rear wheel, and a linear-input steering mechanism for controlling an orientation of the first and second steerable front wheels. The commuter vehicles also include a drive-train for transmitting rotational motion and torque from a power-input source to rotational motion of the trailing rear wheel, and a body defining a cockpit and being supported by the chassis. An outer-most lateral dimension of the body corresponds to a maximum outer-most lateral dimension of the commuter vehicle. Embodiments of linear-input steering mechanisms compatible with commuter vehicles being so dimensioned as to fit through an open door are described.
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| Pharmaceutical polypeptide dry powder aerosol formulation and method of preparation | 20110005523 | 20110113 |
| Dispersible powder compositions suitable for inhalation are disclosed, the compositions including a human interleukin mutein (mhIL-4).
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| System and method for arranging a meeting time for a commuter with a transit system | 20110004496 | 20110106 |
| A system and method for arranging a meeting time for a commuter with a transit system is disclosed. The method includes communicating the commuter's travel path, advance notification time, and contact information to the transit system. The commuter is informed via the commuter's contact information of an estimated arrival time for a transit vehicle in the transit system at a selected stop on the commuter's travel path. This enables the commuter to arrive at the selected stop based on the estimated arrival time. A transit vehicle driver is notified when the commuter has arrived at the transit vehicle on the commuter's travel path. The transit driver can then proceed with the commuter on the transit vehicle.
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| Use of interleukin-4 antagonists and compositions thereof | 20110002913 | 20110106 |
| Methods for treating medical conditions induced by interleukin-4 involve administering an IL-4 antagonist to a patient afflicted with such a condition. Suitable IL-4 antagonists include, but are not limited to, IL-4 receptors (such as a soluble human IL-4 receptor), antibodies that bind IL-4, antibodies that bind IL-4R, IL-4 muteins that bind to IL-4R but do not induce a biological response, molecules that inhibit IL-4-induced signal transduction, and other compounds that inhibit a biological effect that results from the binding of IL-4 to a cell surface IL-4R. Particular antibodies provided herein include human monoclonal antibodies generated by procedures involving immunization of transgenic mice. Such human antibodies may be raised against human IL-4 receptor. Certain of the antibodies inhibit both IL-4-induced and IL-13-induced biological activities.
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| Method for ascertaining a correction value for the angle of the rotor of an electrically commuted reversible synchronous motor | 20110001444 | 20110106 |
| A method ascertains a correction value for the angle of the rotor of an electrically commuted reversible synchronous motor relative to a sensor used for the activation thereof. In order to equalize the sensor and recognize and correct electrical incorrect angles and incorrect controls, the motor is activated in a calibration journey using an externally forced rotating field. The electrical angle of the rotating field and the mechanical angle of the rotor are measured simultaneously by the external sensor on at least one reference position during the calibration journey and stored associated with one another as a measurement series of value pairs. The electrical angle of the rotating field and the mechanical angle of the rotor, which is measured by the sensor, are also detected simultaneously... |
| Conversation recording with real-time notification for users of communication terminals | 20100332220 | 20101230 |
| A recording device provides conversation recording with real-time notification between users of communication terminals engaged in a conversation. The recording device provides a recording start notification to a second communication terminal in response to receiving an initiate recording request from a first communication terminal, and initiates recording of the conversation. The recording device terminates recording of the conversation in response to receiving a terminate recording request from the first communication terminal, provides a recording stop notification to the second communication terminal, and saves the recorded conversation to a file in a file storage medium. The recording start and recording stop notifications can be either audible or electronic notifications. The first communication terminal may be muted prior to providing a notification, and un-muted subsequent to the notification.... |
| Mute control in audio endpoints | 20100324891 | 20101223 |
| Architecture that uses near-end speech detection and far-end energy level detection to notify a user when a local microphone and/or speaker that the user is using, are muted. A voice activity detector is employed to detect the presence of near-end speech, sense the existing mute state of the near-end microphone, and then notify the user when the current microphone is muted. Separately or in combination therewith, received far-end voice signals are detected, the associated energy level computed, the existing mute state of the near-end audio speaker is sensed, and the user notified when the speaker is muted and/or at a reduced volume setting. These determinations enhance the user experience when the architecture is employed for communications sessions where participants connect via different communications modalities by automatically... |
| Route calculation method for a vehicle navigation system | 20100324810 | 20101223 |
| Traffic information, including flow information and incident information, obtained through a traffic management system for providing and facilitating the exchange of traffic information between a remote location and a vehicle may be used in route calculation by a navigation device. The navigation device may recalculate a route based on anticipated user error. Alternatively, the navigation device may recalculate a route using received traffic information triggered by the receipt of a traffic information update, or triggered by the passage of an amount of time. The broadcast rate of traffic information updates may vary temporally (providing more frequent updates during peak commute times) or geographically (providing more frequent updates to metropolitan areas with increased traffic information needs). If route calculation is triggered by an elapsed amount of time,... |
| Endpoint echo detection | 20100322387 | 20101223 |
| Architecture that employs a signal (e.g., audible or inaudible sounds) to detect if endpoints of a communications session are sufficiently close to each other to induce echo, and then control (e.g., muting) is applied to one or more of the endpoints to prevent echo. The signals can be played and detected from the endpoints or a central conferencing component such as a multiple control unit (MCU). The MCU can provide support for legacy endpoints as well. When echo is detected, the offending endpoint(s) can be controlled to mute one or more onboard devices such as a speaker or microphone. The device(s) can be muted from a remote component or for a local component or locally by the endpoint user. A notification can be sent that notifies... |
| Transmit spatial diversity for cellular single frequency networks | 20100322350 | 20101223 |
| Multiple-In Multiple-Out (MIMO) techniques are used to increase spectral efficiency of a cellular single frequency network. In some embodiments with single transmit antenna per cell, multiple data streams are transmitted from multiple cells, one data stream per set of transmit antennae. The mapping of streams to antenna sets is permuted in time. In this way, user equipment devices (UEs) at cell edges benefit from MIMO, and UEs near cell centers benefit from high carrier-to-interference (C/I) ratio of the signal. In some embodiments, each stream is concurrently transmitted on base layer of a hierarchically modulated signal from one set, and on enhancement layer of a hierarchically modulated signal from another set. The mapping of sets to streams is permuted in time. The UEs at cell edges benefit... |
| Communications channel parallel interleaver and de-interleaver | 20100318878 | 20101216 |
| A parallel interleaver that operates to interleave convolutionally and turbo encoded data packets is described. Packets are divided into subpackets and interleaved in parallel for improved performance. The Pruned Bit Reversal Interleaver (PBRI) function used to generate interleaver addresses is invertible such that its inverse function can be used to generate de-interleaver addresses. For convolutionally encoded subpackets, encoder output bits are demultiplexed into three sequences V0, V1, V2 with the first bit going to V0, the second bit going to V1, the third going to V2, and the fourth to V0, etc. Next, each of the three sequences is bit-permuted independently using PBRIs to generate the sequences π(V0), π(V1), π(V2). For turbo encoded subpackets, the encoder NT output data bits are demultiplexed into five sequences U,... |
| Combined byte-permute and bit shift unit | 20100318771 | 20101216 |
| A processor includes a decode unit and a byte permute unit. The byte permute unit receives an instruction from the decode unit. The byte permute unit determines whether the instruction corresponds to a shuffle instruction or a shift instruction. For a shuffle instruction, the byte permute unit uses a byte shuffler to perform a shuffle operation indicated by the instruction. For a shift instruction that indicates a shift magnitude, the byte permute unit uses the byte shuffler to byte-level shift a source operand corresponding to the instruction by an integer number of bytes. The byte permute unit also generates a sequence of output bits by bit-shifting the byte-level shifted source operand by a number of bits such that the sum of the number of bits and... |
| Method for providing a mute control function for multiple microphones connected to a computer | 20100310095 | 20101209 |
| A method for providing a mute control function in a computer having multiple microphones is disclosed. A set of mute state information is stored in a control table of a portable computer. The mute state information is for controlling a mute state. Device identifiers (IDs) of all microphones that are connected to the portable computer are registered with the control table. The microphones corresponding to the device IDs registered in the control table are controlled to be in the same mute state based on the mute state information. In response to a detection of an activation of the mute button, the mute state information are inverted. The device IDs registered in the control table are to be controlled in the same mute state based on the... |
| Barrel shifter | 20100306291 | 20101202 |
| A data processing apparatus is described which comprises processing circuitry responsive to data processing instructions to execute data processing operations and a register file having a set of registers for storing data values for processing by the processing circuitry. The data processing apparatus comprises first shift circuitry which is arranged to receive a data value from the register file and is responsive to a first control signal indicating a first shift amount S1 of between zero and n bit positions to generate a first shifted data value by shifting bit values within the received data value by the first shift amount S1, where n is a predetermined integer. Selection circuitry is provided which is responsive to a second control signal to select between the first shifted... |
| Serial turbo trellis coded modulation using a serially concatenated coder | 20100299581 | 20101125 |
| Serial concatenated trellis coded modulation (SCTCM) includes an outer coder, an interleaver, a recursive inner coder and a mapping element. The outer coder receives data to be coded and produces outer coded data. The interleaver permutes the outer coded data to produce interleaved data. The recursive inner coder codes the interleaved data to produce inner coded data. The mapping element maps the inner coded data to a symbol. The recursive inner coder has a structure which facilitates iterative decoding of the symbols at a decoder system. The recursive inner coder and the mapping element are selected to maximize the effective free Euclidean distance of a trellis coded modulator formed from the recursive inner coder and the mapping element. The decoder system includes a demodulation unit, an... |
| Application and system settings configuration filtering during physical to virtual hard disk conversion | 20100299478 | 20101125 |
| During conversion and transfer of data from a physical machine to a virtual hard disk, a transmuter generates a catalog of contents of the physical machine. Catalog entries are compared to a set of alterations templates which alter matching data. The altered data is then stored in the virtual hard disk. Alterations templates may include filters that exclude unwanted or duplicated catalog entries, mapping filters that transfer source catalog entries to target locations on the virtual hard disk, and add-on filters that add additional data or location references to catalog entries. The disclosed process allows modifications to be made in a systematic way during data transfer.
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| Soluble gp130 muteins with improved binding activity | 20100298236 | 20101125 |
| Described are soluble gp130 polypeptide monomers and dimers, wherein, in a preferred embodiment, at least one of the three amino acid residues Thr102 Gln113 or Asn114 of the N-terminal Ig-like domain of gp130 is mutated to Tyr102, Phe113 or Leu114, respectively. These mutations, alone or in combination, specifically enhance binding of gp130 to its ligand complex of interleukin-6 and soluble interleukin-6 receptor, thus increasing the biological activity of the gp130 muteins. In a particularly preferred embodiment, all three mutations are combined in the triple mutein Thr102Tyr/Gln113Phe/Asn114Leu (T102Y/Q113F/N114L). Moreover, a pharmaceutical composition containing said monomers or dimers and various medical uses are described.
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| Fast three dimensional recovery method and apparatus | 20100295926 | 20101125 |
| The present invention comprises a method and an apparatus for three dimensional modeling to allow dense depth maps to be recovered, without previous knowledge of the surface reflectance, from only a single pair of stereo images. Several initial steps are performed for stereo and radiometric calibration and rectification for obtaining accurate results. The apparatus for the stereo images acquisition includes internal light sources, these are automatically commuted by a illumination control in order to fulfill the reciprocity property, a stereo camera head composed by the necessary optics to acquire the reciprocal stereo images and a compatible PC interface. The invention is faster than other systems since it requires only two images for obtaining a dense depth model of objects with an arbitrary surface reflectance distribution allowing... |
| Fair scalable reader-writer mutual exclusion | 20100293553 | 20101118 |
| Implementing fair scalable reader writer mutual exclusion for access to a critical section by a plurality of processing threads in a processing system is accomplished by creating a first queue node for a first thread on the first thread's stack, the queue node representing a request by the first thread to access the critical section; adding the first queue node to a queue pointed to by a single word reader writer mutex for the critical section, the queue representing a list of threads desiring access to the critical section, each queue node in the queue being on a stack of a thread of the plurality of processing threads; waiting until the first queue node has no preceding write requests as indicated by predecessor queue nodes on... |
| Particle beam isotope generator apparatus, system and method | 20100290575 | 20101118 |
| An isotope generation apparatus is disclosed including: an ion beam source of any of the types described herein; an extractor for extracting the ion beam from the confinement region, where the beam includes a portion of multiply ionized ions in a selected final ionization state; a target including a target material; and an accelerator for accelerating the ion beam and directing the ion beam to the target. The ion beam directed to the target transmutes at least a portion of the target material to a radio-isotope in response to a nuclear reaction between ions in the selected final ion state and atoms of the target material.
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| Method and apparatus for radio resource allocation in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system | 20100284482 | 20101111 |
| In an OFDM communication system, wherein a frequency bandwidth is divided into multiple Physical Resource Units (PRUs), a Frequency Partitioning Configuration Module (FPCM) is provided that configures a physical layer for use in multiple coverage areas. The FPCM divides the PRUs into a first group, for frequency selective allocations, and a second group, for frequency diverse allocations. The FPCM subdivides each of the two groups into multiple sets of PRUs, maps the sets of PRUs from the first group to consecutive PRUs allocated for contiguous segment allocation (CS-PRUs), and maps the sets of PRUs from the second group to consecutive PRUs allocated for distributed segment allocation (DS-PRUs). The FPCM permutes the DS-PRUs and allocates the CS-PRUs and the permuted DS-PRUs to at least one frequency partition.
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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... |
| For externally clocked digital audio input, determining a valid clock and muting audio during synchronization | 20100277204 | 20101104 |
| Methods and apparatus for determining the existence of an external clock over a digital input port on a computer. In one embodiment, the external clock is validated, and a lock is performed when the clock is valid. Whenever a loss of the lock is detected, and, if a re-lock is likely, the apparatus is muted so that audio artifacts that would otherwise be heard are minimized. The methods and apparatus also provide automatic re-locking to the external clock when a sampling rate change is detected.
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| Using multi media players to insert data items into a media stream of a streaming media | 20100275221 | 20101028 |
| Playback of a tagged audio stream at a user's computer can be controlled using a first media player. When the first media player detects a tag in the tagged audio stream, it mutes the volume of the first media player, and transfers playback control to a second media player operating at the same computer. The second media player controls playback of untagged media content, and in response to detecting completion of the untagged media content, returns playback control to the first media player. In this way, multiple media players in a client device can control the playback of audio content and the insertion of spots into that content.
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| Decoding method for low density generator matrix code | 20100275091 | 20101028 |
| The present invention provides a method for decoding a low density generator matrix code (LDGC), applied for decoding transmitted original information bits encoded in LDGC code. The method comprises the following steps: A: deleting a part erased by a channel in a received code word sequence R filled by a known bit sequence to obtain an erased code word sequence Re, and deleting the rows corresponding to the erased part from a transposed matrix GIdgct of a generator matrix of the LDGC to obtain the erased generator matrix Ge; B: permuting columns of Ge such that an M-order square matrix with an element in the 0th row and 0th column being a vertex is a triangular matrix to obtain the permuted generator matrix Gf; and C:... |
| New calb muteins and their use | 20100273223 | 20101028 |
| A protein having acrylation activity having a polypeptide sequence derived from SEQ ID NO: 1 or NO:2 by introducing at least one of the following amino acid substitutions: L278A, L278V, W104F, T42A, S47A.
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| Muteins of human tear lipocalin | 20090325875 | 20091231 |
| The present invention relates to novel muteins derived from tear lipocalin or a homologue thereof. In particular, the invention relates to a mutein of human tear lipocalin. The invention also refers to a corresponding nucleic acid molecule encoding such a mutein and to a method for its generation. The invention further refers to a method for producing such a mutein. Finally, the invention is directed to a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a lipocalin mutein as well as to various use of the mutein.
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| Method for implementing photoelectric mutex, ethernet photoelectric mutex interface device and network equipment | 20090323705 | 20091231 |
| A method for implementing photoelectric mutex, an Ethernet photoelectric mutex interface device, and network equipment are provided. The Ethernet photoelectric mutex interface device includes a channel switching module, a first Ethernet physical layer (PHY) chip, and a second Ethernet PHY chip. The channel switching module is connected to the first Ethernet PHY chip through a first interface and connected to the second Ethernet PHY chip through a second interface respectively, and is adapted to perform data transmission through the first Ethernet PHY chip and when a presence signal of an optical interface data transmission module is detected, perform data transmission through the second Ethernet PHY chip. Thus, a cost of equipment for implementing a photoelectric mutex function in an Ethernet is reduced, and a utilization rate... |
| Communication apparatus and control method | 20090322855 | 20091231 |
| A communication apparatus includes a display unit, a communication unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays video data. The communication unit communicates with an external apparatus. The control unit controls the communication apparatus in accordance with a command received by the communication unit. If the display unit is in a mute state and the communication unit is sending the external apparatus the data for placing the external apparatus in a mute state, the control unit determines not to control the communication apparatus in accordance with the command.
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| Audio device control method and apparatus | 20090319898 | 20091224 |
| A method of controlling an audio output device at a user terminal connected to a communication network and executing a communication client is provided. The method comprises: establishing a connection between a user of the user terminal and a further user over the communication network; responsive to establishing the connection, analysing the status of the audio output device with the communication client; in the case that the communication client determines that the audio output device is in a muted state, controlling the audio output device to deactivate the muted state such that audio information transmitted from the further user via the connection can be heard by the user of the user terminal.
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| Momentary power market | 20090319415 | 20091224 |
| A method and system is proposed for the physical trading of electricity, which is characterized by continuous Dynamic Advanced Prices formation and propagation over a single price period that is a few seconds long. The Node and Branch price equations are applied to the power flows and to the corresponding costs incurred at measure points, as well as to the system-wide costs allocated equitably by means of a Price Designator, Price Announcers, Price Transmuters and Intelligent Meters and by other devices, all of which function together in a sequential and repetitive process of preliminary bidding, clearing, adjustment and dispatching, followed by price designation, confirmation and conversion in a way that takes into account congestion and security costs and the compensation of involuntary deviations. The method provides... |
| Analog radio receiver | 20090318104 | 20091224 |
| An analog radio receiver change a noise suppression parameter appropriate for a sound to be reproduced. The analog radio receiver includes a sound category determining unit for determining a category of a sound to be reproduced from an input signal, and a selecting unit for selecting, on the basis of the category determined by the sound category determining unit, a noise suppression parameter such as passband of the IF filter, blend value of the stereo blend unit, high-cut value of the high-cut unit, response rate of the soft mute unit, and the like, wherein the IF filter, the stereo blend unit, the high-cut unit, the soft mute unit suppress noises of the input signal on the basis of the noise suppression parameter selected by the selecting... |
| Devices and methods for performing n-way mute for n-way voice over internet protocol (voip) calls | 20090316870 | 20091224 |
| The disclosed are methods and computing devices configured to engage in Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) conference calls and configured to participate as a moderator of VOIP conference calls allow a moderator or delegate to monitor the mute status of call participants and/or control which participants are muted. In this way, a participant would not be required to necessarily adhere to conference call muting etiquette. For example, in the event that a participant's line is noisy, which may be unknown to the participant, the moderator could mute the line. Other distractions to the conference call as a whole could therefore be controlled as well. The ability to mute determine and/or control the muting of a participant device furthermore enables the moderator to engage rules of conduct... |
| Camera and method of image transmission by local network | 20090316006 | 20091224 |
| The invention relates to digital equipment (10) capable of supplying image data comprising local wireless network communications (12) and a physical connection interface (14, 15, 18). According to the invention, the equipment also has means of detecting (16, 20) a mute connection of the interface (14, 18) to a connector (32, 38), the equipment being controlled by the detection means to automatically trip an image data transmission procedure from the camera to a printing station (30), through the local wireless network, in response to the detection of a mute connection. Application to mobile phones with image sensor or to any mobile terminal provided with multiple communications (wire and wireless).
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| Utilizing an audio signal to monitor a program with a technique that is operable even during a mute mode | 20090316000 | 20091224 |
| An apparatus for monitoring a program signal received from a broadcast source that is to be performed by reproduction equipment, wherein an audio portion of the program signal is broadcast in combination with a monitoring code to provide a combined audio signal, comprising a switch, a code detector, and a component configured to receive the combined signal from the broadcast source and to provide to each of the reproduction equipment and the switch a respective output signal related to the combined signal. The code detector is adapted to receive an audio output from the reproduction equipment which has a mute mode, the reproduction equipment transmitting at least the monitoring code from the combined audio signal to the code detector if not in the mute mode and... |
| Interleaver for scrambling and information word | 20090315742 | 20091224 |
| Interleaver for scrambling an information word, the information word having a multitude of digits, for obtaining a permuted information word. The interleaver includes a first interleaver stage for a row-by-row arranging of the digits of the information word in a plurality of first rows and first columns, and a second interleaver stage for scrambling the digits of one of the first rows by interchanging at least two digits of the one first row in order to obtain a first scrambled row, and for replacing the one of the first rows by the first scrambled row. The first interleaver stage is configured for reading the first row, which is replaced based on the first scrambled row, in a column-by-column manner in order to obtain the permuted information... |
| Organ transplant solutions and method for transplanting organs | 20090311663 | 20091217 |
| A preservation solution for organs waiting to be transplanted is disclosed; the method of using the solution in a transplantation procedure is also disclosed. The preservation solutions comprise a balanced isotonic aqueous solution comprising sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and bicarbonate ions in a physiologically acceptable amount, together with an effective amount of a mutein of the C5a anaphylatoxin which is a C5a receptor antagonist wherein the amino acid residue naturally occurring at sequence position 69 is mutated.
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| Methods for treating tweak-related conditions | 20090311313 | 20091217 |
| The present invention provides methods and agents for the treatment of TWEAK-related conditions, including cardiac, liver, kidney, lung, adipose, skeletal, muscle, neuronal, bone and cartilage conditions. The invention also provides methods for identifying TWEAK agonists or antagonists for the treatment of TWEAK-related conditions. Additionally, the invention provides transgenic animals that express an exogenous DNA encoding a TWEAK polypeptide, or fragments, analogs, or muteins thereof, and methods for using such animals to identify TWEAK agonists or antagonists. The invention further provides methods for diagnosing a disease based on TWEAK expression. The invention also provides methods for affecting cellular differentiation of progenitor cells using TWEAK polypeptides, agonists, or antagonists.
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| Communication apparatus and method | 20090310498 | 20091217 |
| A packetizer sectionalizes data to be transmitted into predetermined units and packetizes them into packets. A permuter permutes the order of the packets created by the packetizer based on a designated interleave length and sends out the packets to a network. A continuous loss information collector collects information on continuous packet loss occurring on the network. An interleave length determiner determines an interleave length based on the information on continuous packet loss, collected by the continuous loss information collector and designates the interleave length for the permuter.
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| Muteins of tear lipocalin and methods for obtaining the same | 20090305982 | 20091210 |
| The present invention relates to novel muteins derived from human tear lipocalin. The invention also refers to a corresponding nucleic acid molecule encoding such a mutein and to a method for its generation. The invention further refers to a method for producing such a mutein. Finally, the invention is directed to a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a lipocalin mutein as well as to various uses of the mutein.
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| Base station system and method for call setting up, handing over and releasing in hybrid network | 20090305703 | 20091210 |
| A base station system and method for call setting up, handing over and releasing in hybrid network are disclosed. The base station system consists of BSC, TC, several BTSs and a band-width guaranteed IP network among them, IP mode transport and traditional TDM mode transport between BSC and TC are simultaneity supported in the system, and BTS supports TDM mode or IP mode. The invention is provided with such advantages: compatibility with TDM, which maximumly protects the providers' investment; smooth transition from TDM to IP, which decreases investing risk; flexible choice for different physical layer or data link layer transmission apparatuses to bear IP message, which facilitates the providers to constitute their networks. In IP mode, data service can share bandwidth with the mute frames of... |
| Screening method to identify protective substances for the treatment of neurodegenerative and/or ischaemic diseases | 20090305289 | 20091210 |
| The present invention relates to a screening method for the identification of protective substances which influence haemoglobin formation in neuronal, myocardial and/or skeletomuscular cells, as well as to recombinant constructs, host cells and transgenic animals for the implementation of this method. In addition, the present invention relates to a diagnostic method for the differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative and/or ischaemic diseases in mammals and the use of haemoglobin, a globin or a mutein or fusion protein thereof or a corresponding nucleic acid for the treatment of neurodegenerative and/or ischaemic diseases in mammals. The invention furthermore relates to constructs for gene therapy of such diseases.
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| Body motion controlled audio playing device | 20090304208 | 20091210 |
| A body motion controlled audio playing device is disposed with a sensing switch that can be covered in a non-contact way to selectively enable such functions as startup, shutdown, mute, and volume adjustment.
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| Apparatus and method for error concealment for a digital wireless phone | 20090303980 | 20091210 |
| A method and system to conceal transmission errors in a digital wireless system is disclosed. The system is used in the uplink or the downlink of a cordless or wireless TDMA system. When there are unused data slots available, the system allocates redundant slots in a data frame to a single mobile unit. The receiving device calculates a quality of slot (QoS) score for each slot that it receives data for. After the QoS score is calculated, the system calculates a Quality of Audio Segment (QoAS) score for each individual segment. It does so by comparing the individual audio segments that were received. Segments that are identical are assigned a positive score, while segments that differ get no score. The QoAS for each segment is added... |
| Operational risk assessment and control | 20090299804 | 20091203 |
| System and method for operational risk assessment and control. The present invention, in disclosed, example embodiments provides systems and methods to facilitate risk assessment, prioritization, mitigation and control activities. Various modules work together to accomplish risk assessment, prioritization, mitigation and stability tracking. The modules can be implemented by a computer system or systems, software and networks, or by other means, such as paper-based means. In some embodiments, operational risk management and control begins with an assessment for one or more functions of the organization involved. This assessment includes identifying failure modes, causes and effects, which are permuted to define risk items. A risk prioritization report is produced which prioritizes the risk items based at least in part on the ratings associated with the causes and effects,... |
| Suction machine | 20090298011 | 20091203 |
| A suction machine intended for a dental or surgical suction installation is specified that includes a separating unit, which contains a rotor and is used to separate liquid and if appropriate solid constituents from a suctioned mixture of air, liquid and if appropriate solids, and a suction fan, which is connected to an air outlet of the separating unit and has a housing and an impeller. The suction fan is designed as a radial fan whose impeller is driven by an electrically commuted electric motor, which drives the rotor of the separating unit via a gearing.
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| Teleconference subscription control for agenda subscription tools | 20090296909 | 20091203 |
| A method, system, and computer program product for autonomously controlling caller access to a teleconference based on specified preferences of a moderator. Using preferences established by the moderator of a teleconference, a conference control system may grant or restrict access of participants of the teleconference. The conference control system may authorize callers of a teleconference based on the current agenda item being discussed or the amount of time a caller has been on the ongoing teleconference. When a specific caller is not authorized to be on a conversation, the conference control system may mute the conversation for a specific caller, or disconnect the caller. The conference control system may autonomously re-connect the caller when an authorized agenda item for the caller is being discussed.
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| Server unit, client unit, server-based computing system, server control method, client control method, and recording medium | 20090287769 | 20091119 |
| A display-operation setting database for defining key arrangements on the input unit (soft keyboard) of a client according to the type of an application which runs on a server is stored in the server beforehand. When the application running on the server is changed according to an input event from the client, definition information on the key arrangement corresponding to the operation application is read from the stored database and transmitted to the client. The key arrangement displayed on the input unit (soft keyboard) of the client is changed to a key arrangement corresponding to the operation application on the basis of the definition information received from the server. Then, a key signal corresponding to the user operation on the basis of the key arrangement is... |
| Memory allocator for optimistic data access | 20090287735 | 20091119 |
| A method, system and computer readable media for optimistic access of data objects in a processing system. The method, system and computer readable media comprise providing a list of position objects. Each of the position objects can be associated with a data object. The method, system and computer readable medium include utilizing a thread to mutex a position object of the list of position objects and to associate the position object with a data object, and accessing the data object by the thread. The method, system and computer readable medium record a free level of a memory allocator as a read level of the position object and record a version number of the data object as the version number of the position object after the access... |
| Multiple-output transmitter for transmitting a plurality of spatial streams | 20090279629 | 20091112 |
| A multiple output transmitter is configured for transmitting a single input data stream over two or more spatial channels using OFDM signals. The transmitter includes a commutator to select bits from the single input data stream for two or more bit streams and two or more encoders each to encode bits of one of the bit streams. The commutator operates at a bit rate and sequentially provides the selected bits of the input data stream to the encoders. A spatial bit sequencer selects groups of encoded bits from each of the encoders and assigns individual bits of a selected group at the bit-rate to block permuters in a sequential manner to distribute bits from the selected group across the block permuters. The block permuters produce interleaved... |
| Multiple-output transmitter for transmitting a plurality of spatial streams | 20090279629 | 20091112 |
| A multiple output transmitter is configured for transmitting a single input data stream over two or more spatial channels using OFDM signals. The transmitter includes a commutator to select bits from the single input data stream for two or more bit streams and two or more encoders each to encode bits of one of the bit streams. The commutator operates at a bit rate and sequentially provides the selected bits of the input data stream to the encoders. A spatial bit sequencer selects groups of encoded bits from each of the encoders and assigns individual bits of a selected group at the bit-rate to block permuters in a sequential manner to distribute bits from the selected group across the block permuters. The block permuters produce interleaved... |
| Turbo ldpc decoding | 20090276682 | 20091105 |
| An iterative low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding system comprises a first shift register for storing bit estimates, a plurality of parity-check processing node banks configured for processing the bit estimates for generating messages, combiners configured for combining the messages with the bit estimates for generating updated bit estimates, and fixed permuters for permuting the updated bit estimates to facilitate storage and access of the bit estimates. A second shift register is provided for storing the messages, and a subtraction module subtracts messages generated a predetermined number of cycles earlier from the updated bit estimates.
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| Mutex-mediated control of spatial access by appliances moveable over a common physical space | 20090276071 | 20091105 |
| A configurable mutual exclusion function oversees movement of appliances mobile over a common physical space in an automated laboratory workstation. A configurable mutex is allotted for each moveable appliance and is configurable to protect a task site when obtained for the respective appliance.
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| In vivo imaging agents for met receptor tyrosine kinase | 20090274623 | 20091105 |
| Provided are in vivo imaging agents comprising muteins of hTLc having detectable binding affinity for c-Met or a domain thereof, coupled to a signal generator, and the mutein coupled to a signal generator is disposed in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Also provided are diagnostic methods using in vivo imaging agents comprising muteins of hTLc having detectable binding affinity for c-Met or a domain thereof.
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| Compound isotope target assembly for production of medical and commercial isotopes by means of spectrum shaping alloys | 20090274258 | 20091105 |
| A neutron generator and method of using the same to produce commercial and medical isotopes. Isotopes are transmuted using fission spectrum neutrons produced in neutron multiplier alloys proximate a target isotope. The produced neutron fission spectrum is tailored or shaped by alloys disposed between the multiplier alloys and the target isotope. The tailoring alloys selectively convert the neutron fission spectrum to a nearly coherent distribution of selected high energy, fast, epithermal, or thermal neutrons. The tailoring alloys are engineered to slow the fission spectrum neutrons to the resonance energies of the selected target isotopes through scattering or hydriding of selected components of high temperature aluminum alloys that optimize neutron capture in engineered target alloys.
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| Turbo ldpc decoding | 20090276682 | 20091105 |
| An iterative low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding system comprises a first shift register for storing bit estimates, a plurality of parity-check processing node banks configured for processing the bit estimates for generating messages, combiners configured for combining the messages with the bit estimates for generating updated bit estimates, and fixed permuters for permuting the updated bit estimates to facilitate storage and access of the bit estimates. A second shift register is provided for storing the messages, and a subtraction module subtracts messages generated a predetermined number of cycles earlier from the updated bit estimates.
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| Connection fatigue index analysis for threaded connection | 20080319720 | 20081225 |
| A method for characterizing a threaded coupling such as between two tubular members is disclosed. In one embodiment, a threaded connection between a first tubular and a second tubular is considered, where the first tubular has a internally-threaded box structure and the second tubular has outer threads defining a pin structure. A mathematical model of the connection between the two tubulars is generated, and the mathematical model is permuted to reflect application of at least one flexing force to the joint. From the permuted model, a stress/strain distribution of the box and pin structures is derived. A connection fatigue index value is calculated based on the stress/strain distribution. In one embodiment, connection fatigue indices are computed for a variety of connection combinations, such that a user... |
| Method of remotely changing operating characteristics of a communications device | 20080310610 | 20081218 |
| The present invention relates to a method of remotely changing operating characteristics of a communications device selected for signalling an incoming message or call to a user. To allow signalling an urgent incoming message or call to a user even if the device to be called is in a mute state, the method comprises the steps of: transmitting control data from a calling device (MSI) to a device (MS2) to called; changing a group of operating characteristics of the device (MS2) to be called in accordance with the transmitted control data; and signalling an incoming message or call in accordance with the operating characteristics set up in the previous step.
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| Scheduling tasks dynamically depending on the location of a mobile user | 20080311929 | 20081218 |
| Systems, methods, and computer program products for automatically scheduling and rescheduling tasks based on predictable, observable, or measurable events, and on conditions occurring in the vicinity of the user's location. A plurality of tasks are defined by the user. Events or conditions depending on the user's location and affecting the opportunity or the feasibility of the tasks are associated with these tasks. Task schedules are assigned, merged, or permuted to dynamically provide the user with a feasible and convenient agenda.
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| Systems and methods for modifying commercials | 20080304809 | 20081211 |
| Methods and products to deliver at least a portion of an advertisement to a viewer at normal playback speeds after receiving a command from the viewer to fast-forward through an advertisement faster than normal playback speeds is described. In certain embodiments, the invention delivers a portion of the advertisement to be played at normal playback speeds to the viewer; and delivers the remaining portion of the advertisement to be played at a playback speed that is faster than the specified playback speed so that the combination of the portions delivered at normal and faster playback speeds is delivered to the user at the specified playback speed. In some other embodiments, the invention delivers at least a portion of the first advertisement to the viewer at normal... |
| Use of protease or a protease inhibitor for the manufacture of medicaments | 20080305097 | 20081211 |
| The invention relates to the use of a cathepsin K inhibitor (CTKI) or CTK, a mutein, isoform, fused protein, functional derivative, active fraction, circularly permutated derivative, a salt or inducer thereof in the manufacture of a medicament for treating a disease in which SDF-1 activity and/or concentration is involved with the development and/or course of the disease.
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| Method and system to decommute a variable synchronization pattern using a fixed decommutator | 20080298400 | 20081204 |
| A method for decommutating a variable-synchronization pattern uses a fixed-synchronization decommutator. The method comprises generating N copies of the data stream, receiving one of the N copies of the data stream at a respective one of N fixed decommutator subsystems, receiving synchronized segments of the data stream from each of the N fixed decommutator subsystems at a logical multiplexer, and periodically outputting from the logical multiplexer at least (1/N)th of the synchronized segments of the data stream received from each of the N fixed decommutator subsystems. Each of the N fixed decommutator subsystems is synchronized to a respective synchronization pattern. At least (1/N)th synchronized segments that are sent from each fixed decommutator system are synchronized to the respective synchronization pattern. During each period, the N multiplexed... |
| Variable length private key generator and method thereof | 20080298584 | 20081204 |
| The present invention relates to a variable length private key generator. According to one embodiment, the variable length private key generator includes a permuter. The permuter is configured to generate a key stream of a desired length by permuting a plurality of shift registers. The permuter includes the plurality of shift registers, a plurality of clocking modules, and/or an output module. Each clocking module corresponds to a different one of the plurality of shift registers and is configured to generate a clocking signal based on selected bits of the corresponding shift register. The output module is configured to output the key stream based on at least one clocking signal and output of at least one of the plurality of shift registers.
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| Method and system for processing immuno-competent cells in view of an antiviral therapy, and related therapeutic process | 20080299150 | 20081204 |
| a step for processing the collected immuno-competent cells, so as to stimulate at least a part of the immuno-competent cells, by presenting a muted viral particle to the cells, in view of a reinjection of the stimulated cells into the human or animal subject.
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| Apparatus, and associated method, for detecting values of a space-time block code using selective decision-feedback detection | 20080285687 | 20081120 |
| A selective decision-feedback detector for the space-time block code which provides both diversity and spatial multiplexing. To detect a received code block of transmitted symbols, the channel matrix is properly preprocessed with the real and imaginary parts decoupled, and the selective decision-feedback detector makes multiple decisions on the same block upon differently permuted channel matrix and generates multiple candidates for the results. The indicators of the decision errors associated with the candidates are compared, and one of the candidates with the minimum error is selected by a selector as the decided symbols to be used for further processing at a receiving station.
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| System for screening cells for high expression of a protein of interest (poi) | 20080286824 | 20081120 |
| This invention refers to industrial production of proteins. More particularly, the invention refers to a fusion protein as a novel chimeric selection marker comprising a peptide conferring resistance to an antibiotic, or a fragment, allelic variant, splice variant or mutein thereof, and at least one sequence comprising SEQ ID NO: 1, 2 or 3, preferably for producing a protein of interest (POI). The inventive chimeric selection marker exhibits: (i) a resistance to an antibiotic; and (ii) a fluorescence activity upon binding of a ligand to the sequence comprising SEQ ID NO: 1, 2 or 3. The invention further refers to nucleic acids encoding the inventive fusion protein and to expression vectors, comprising the inventive fusion protein and additionally the protein of interest (POI). Finally, uses of... |
| Applications for remote control devices with added functionalities | 20080278635 | 20081113 |
| A handheld wireless device for controlling an electronic device. Ambient noise is automatically detected using a microphone and user preference parameters (e.g., volume) are adjusted, compensating for the detected noise. Plurality of signals are sent and received, operable to determine the location of the remote control, thereby operable to automatically tune various user preference parameters (e.g., surround sound). The remote control may be used as a telephone. When receiving a call, the caller information may be displayed using a popup window (e.g., on a television set). A call may be answered and the program may be paused/recorded/muted. The electronic device is automatically configured by identifying the user. A reader may read information on a payment card in a contactless manner. In one embodiment a radio frequency... |
| Method and apparatus for automatically suppressing computer keyboard noises in audio telecommunication session | 20080279366 | 20081113 |
| A communication system automatically mutes a microphone in response to a key event detected from a coupled keyboard to prevent delivery of noise generated by the keyboard to a far end of the communication session. A timer is initiated for a time period when the key event occurs, and the microphone remains muted for the time period of the timer. The timer may be restarted to maintain the microphone mute in response to a subsequent key event detected while the timer is running. If the timer expires before a subsequent key event is detected, the microphone can be restored to its previous state (usually un-muted). The system can be applied to a computer coupled to the keyboard and a microphone and having a communication application operating... |
| Use of the repressor glxr for the synthesis of lysine in corynebacterium glutamicum | 20080280333 | 20081113 |
| Isolated polypeptide sequence having the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 or muteins thereof having the ability to bind cAMP and repress the expression of the aceB gene of C. glutamicum and which can be obtained from SEQ ID NO:1 by inserting, deleting or substituting up to 20% of the amino acids.
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| Media gateway interconnect routing in a softswitch environment | 20080280616 | 20081113 |
| Calls are routed in a distributed mobile switching center environment in response to receiving a call to be routed from a first switching mode (310(1) to a second switching node (3101(2)). An inter-switch mute for the call from the first switching node to the second switching node is identified. The inter-switch route includes an intermediate switching node (305) having multiple media gateway (320). An intra-switch route within the intermediate switching node is selected from multiple possible intra-switch routes for use in establishing the inter-switch route. Each of the intra-switch routes includes one or more interconnections (330) between media gateways. The call is connected using the identified inter-switch route and the selected intra-switch route.
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| Computerized protection system and method for automatically identifying and/or characterizing risk parameters | 20080281645 | 20081113 |
| The invention concerns a computerized protection system and method for automatically identifying and/or characterizing risk parameters. The invention is characterized in that it comprises a look up table (4) containing risk parameters, produced based on data records of products and/or populations, accessibly stored, in databanks (2), and classes of risk are produced, in combination with the records of products and/or populations, by means of a filtering module (3), based on risk parameters of the look up table (4); an analyzing module (1) is used for producing for each class of risk, at least one commuted value of the probability of occurrence of a definable event, and a normalizing module (5) is used for normalizing the commuted value of the respective class of risk, based on the... |
| Information processing apparatus and power saving control method | 20080282099 | 20081113 |
| According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a sound controller which reproduces a sound signal, and a sound driver which controls a drive of the sound controller. The sound driver includes a volume full-mute determination unit which determines whether or not the apparatus is set in a volume full-mute state of making zero sound output volume, and a control unit which determines whether or not the apparatus is set in a volume full-mute state by using the volume full-mute determination unit when a sound signal reproduce request is made while the sound controller has transferred to a power saving mode, and maintains the sound controller in a power saving mode when the apparatus is set in a volume full-mute state.
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| Bass drum mute | 20080264233 | 20081030 |
| A bass drum mute and a muted drum comprise a pad having a first face including a resilient first surface for bearing on the drumhead membrane and an opposite, second face including a second surface for receiving impacts from a beater. A mounting assembly is simultaneously engagable with the pad and the drum hoop or shell, for holding the first surface of the pad in fixed position bearing against the membrane while the second surface is exposed to the beater. The pad preferably comprises a block of self-supporting resilient material such as foam rubber with a striking region of firmer material. A channel spans the pad, with a cross bar insertable in the channel and having free ends extendable beyond the channel. A mounting end effector... |
| Transmit diversity in a wireless communication system | 20080267310 | 20081030 |
| A method for transmitting data via multiple antennas by modulating data to be transmitted into a plurality of modulated symbols, encoding each pair of modulated symbols from among said plurality of symbols in accordance with a transmission diversity scheme to result in a plurality of N by N matrices, with each N by N matrix corresponding to each pair of modulated symbols, generating a M by M code matrix comprised of the plurality of N by N matrices, orthogonally spreading the M by M code matrix to generate an output matrix, generating a plurality of row-permuted matrices by exchanging at least one pair of rows in the output matrix, and transmitting the symbols in the plurality of row-permuted matrices via a plurality of antennas by using... |
| Article of manufacture integrated with music and telephonic communication devices | 20080267440 | 20081030 |
| An article of manufacture, such as a jacket or backpack, integrates the services of an audio delivery device, such as an MP3 player, with the services of a two-way communication device, such as a mobile phone, or a two-way radio such as a walkie talkie, citizen band radio, HAM radio, marine or aviation radio, and the like. The article integrates the reception and provision of input and output signals from both the audio devices within the article, thereby enabling a user to listen to music or to receive and place phone calls while engaged in activity. In one implementation, the article provides these functions by holding one or more devices for communicably connecting and switching the audio and communication devices, mixing signals received therefrom, and optionally... |
| Radio receiver that changes function according to the output of an internal voice-only detector | 20080268802 | 20081030 |
| A radio receiver includes a voice-only detection mechanism that detects when the current radio station is transmitting mostly voice, and that changes the function of the receiver depending on whether or not the current radio station is transmitting mostly voice. In a first embodiment, the radio receiver mutes its audio output when the voice-only detection mechanism detects a voice broadcast, or mutes its audio output when the voice-only detection mechanism detects a music broadcast. In a second embodiment, the radio receiver changes to a different radio station when a voice-only signal is detected, or when a music signal is detected. The second embodiment preferably includes a spectrum analyzer that can store a frequency spectrum “signature” of a radio signal, and a second tuner that scans the... |
| Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data using space-time block coding | 20080260053 | 20081023 |
| An STFBC coding apparatus for a transmitter with four Tx antennas is provided. In the transmitter, an encoder generates a code symbol vector by encoding an input symbol sequence in a predetermined coding method. A grouping block permutes the elements of the code symbol vector by multiplying the code symbol vector by a permutation antenna grouping pattern selected among predetermined permutation antenna grouping patterns according to a predetermined order and outputs the permuted code symbol vector as a grouping symbol vector. OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) modulators OFDM modulate the grouping symbol vectors and transmit OFDM modulated symbols through the four transmit antennas.
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| Prna chimera | 20080261277 | 20081023 |
| A circularly permuted chimeric pRNA molecule carrying a stabilized biologically active RNA, such as a ribozyme.
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| Turbo ldpc decoding | 20080263425 | 20081023 |
| An iterative low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding system comprises a first shift register for storing bit estimates, a plurality of parity-check processing node banks configured for processing the bit estimates for generating messages, combiners configured for combining the messages with the bit estimates for generating updated bit estimates, and fixed permuters for permuting the updated bit estimates to facilitate storage and access of the bit estimates. A second shift register is provided for storing the messages, and a subtraction module subtracts messages generated a predetermined number of cycles earlier from the updated bit estimates.
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| Preparation of deallergenized proteins and permuteins | 20080254484 | 20081016 |
| Deallergenized proteins and permuteins can be used as insecticidal materials, as nutritional supplements, and as immunotherapeutic agents.
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| Il-15 binding site for il 15-ralpha and specific il-15 mutants having agonists/antagonists activity | 20080255039 | 20081016 |
| The present invention relates to the identification of an epitope in human Interleukin-15 (IL-15) that is responsible for binding to the interleukin-15 receptor α-chain. Two IL-15 regions are involved in the formation of this epitope: the first region (44LLELQVISL52, peptide 1) corresponds to a sequence located in the B helix and the second (64ENLIL68, peptide 2 or 64ENLIIL69, peptide 2a) to a sequence located in helix C. Muteins displaying agonist or antagonist properties are described, and may be useful as therapeutic agents.
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| Reproduction controlling method and receiving apparatus | 20080256589 | 20081016 |
| A method of controlling reproduction for a stream containing video data and/or audio data is disclosed. A mute process is performed for a decoded output of the stream. A first decode process is performed to decode a partial region of the stream from a beginning thereof and obtain attribute information from the stream. Parameters with which the stream is reproduced are set on a basis of the attribute information. The mute process is stopped after the parameters have been set. A second decode process is performed to decode the stream from the beginning thereof.
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| Device, method and program for providing matching service | 20080240445 | 20081002 |
| A computer for a service provider receives from each member of two groups who is a user of a service via a mediating computer, a priority list in which member IDs of the other group is permuted in the priority order of a user and processing information that are encrypted so as not to be decrypted by the mediating computer. The ID of the priority list is encrypted with an encrypting key that is common to all members. The computer for a service provider performs matching, with ID in the priority list being left encrypted when the list is decrypted. The computer for a service provider decrypts the processing information, makes it in a state in which the matching result can be decrypted based on the... |
| Power control circuit with alarm | 20080232016 | 20080925 |
| A power control circuit with alarm, comprising a MCU control circuit, wherein further comprising a step down commute circuit, a power detecting circuit, a voltage regulate circuit, a complementary comparison circuit and a feedback compensating circuit, a cut-off control circuit. Said power detecting circuit and said step down commute circuit are connected in parallel. The input ends of power complementary comparing circuit and temperature negative feedback compensating circuit are connected to the output end of the power detecting circuit. The output ends of power complementary comparison circuit and temperature negative feed back compensating circuit are connected to the input end of MCU control circuit. Said step down commute circuit, voltage regulate circuit, MCU control circuit are connected in turn and in cascade. The output end of... |
| Structured conference calls | 20080233933 | 20080925 |
| A conference call is disclosed that is partitioned into two or more topics by a host. Participants to the conference call can then inform the illustrative embodiment which topic or topics they are interested in and where they can be reached over the course of the conference call. At that point, those people who are not interested in the immediate topic can hang up or put their terminal on mute or other go about their business. As the conference call progresses from topic to topic, the host, or another person, informs the illustrative embodiment which topic is next to be discussed. The illustrative embodiment then alerts the participants who indicated their interest in the topic if their terminal is on mute or standby and adds the... |
| Two-way communication system, communication terminal device and image mute control method | 20080225111 | 20080918 |
| A two-way communication system in which a plurality of communication terminal devices are mutually connected via a network, wherein the communication terminal devices include: a camera; and a terminal main unit; and wherein the camera includes an imaging unit configured to image a subject to output image data; and wherein the terminal main unit includes a remote control signal reception unit configured to receive a remote control signal, a communication unit configured to transmit image data to another communication terminal device, and a mute control unit configured to selectively switch the image data transmitted from the communication unit to image data output from the imaging unit or mute image data, based on a remote control signal for mute control received at the remote control signal reception... |
| Muteins of fibroblast growth factor 21 | 20070299007 | 20071227 |
| The present invention relates to novel muteins of human fibroblast growth factor-21 with reduced susceptibility for proteolytic degradation when expressed in yeast. Both protein and the respective encoding nucleic acid species are disclosed. The invention also embodies vectors and host cells for the propagation of said nucleic acid sequences and the production of said muteins. Also disclosed are methods for treating type 2 diabetes, obesity, or metabolic syndrome. X-16816
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| Apparatus and method for reducing background noise | 20070293159 | 20071220 |
| An apparatus including an audio input module and an activation device configured to activate the audio input module when the audio input module is in a mute mode and deactivate the audio input module when the activation device is deactivated.
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| Mutein of a bone morphogenetic protein and use thereof | 20070293425 | 20071220 |
| The present invention is related to a mutein of a bone morphogenetic protein, whereby the mutein comprises an amino acid substitution compared to the wildtype of the bone morphogenetic protein at the amino acid position corresponding to amino acid position 51 of human BMP-2.
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| Muteins of fibroblast growth factor 21 | 20070293430 | 20071220 |
| The present invention relates to novel muteins of human fibroblast growth factor 21 with reduced deamidation compared to wild-type human FGF-21. Both protein and the respective encoding nucleic acid species are disclosed. The invention also embodies vectors and host cells for the propagation of said nucleic acid sequences and the production of said muteins. Also disclosed are methods for treating type 2 diabetes, obesity, or metabolic syndrome.
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| Identification of ses-3 and the uses of same | 20070293450 | 20071220 |
| The invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules coding for SES-3 proteins or muted SES-3 proteins, and vectors and transgenic organisms containing such nucleic acid molecules. The invention also relates to uses of such nucleic acid molecules or others which are functionally similar, for producing pharmaceuticals and for producing model organisms. The invention further relates to the corresponding SES-3 proteins and muted SES-3 proteins, and the antibodies induced thereby. Finally, the invention relates to the use of substances which increase the expression of human presenilin, for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, in addition to said substances themselves and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same.
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| Device, method and program for providing matching service | 20070294432 | 20071220 |
| A computer for a service provider receives from each member of two groups who is a user of a service via a mediating computer, a priority list in which member IDs of the other group is permuted in the priority order of a user and processing information that are encrypted so as not to be decrypted by the mediating computer. The ID of the priority list is encrypted with an encrypting key that is common to all members. The computer for a service provider performs matching, with ID in the priority list being left encrypted when the list is decrypted. The computer for a service provider decrypts the processing information, makes it in a state in which the matching result can be decrypted based on the... |
| Key charm apparatus | 20070284401 | 20071213 |
| A key charm has a timer and a device for alerting a user. The timer is set to wake up after a period of time such as five-six hours; at which time the device for alerting the user is energized for a short period of time such as thirty seconds. The device for alerting the user is, for example, a vibrator, a sounder and/or a light. The key charm can be provided to an individual so that when it alerts the individual, the individual will think of someone or will think of an advertisement. Optionally, a mute button is provided to mute one or more of the vibrator, sounder and light.
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| Dtv transmitting system and receiving system and method of processing broadcast signal | 20070286291 | 20071213 |
| A television transmitting system includes an encoder, a data randomizing and expanding unit, a group formatter, a deinterleaver, and a packet formatter. The encoder codes enhanced data for error correction, permutes the coded data, and further codes the permuted data for error detection. The randomizing and expanding unit randomizes the error-detection-coded data and expands the randomized data. The group formatter forms a group of enhanced data having one or more data regions and inserts the expanded enhanced data into at least one of the regions. The deinterleaver deinterleaves the group of enhanced data, and the packet formatter generates enhanced data packets.
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| Sound output control device | 20070286436 | 20071213 |
| To make it possible to mute voice signals properly according to a headphone or antenna connected. A device for receiving radio signals and outputting voice signals from a first speaker. The device comprises a connection unit having the terminal of an antenna and/or a second speaker connected therewith, a reception unit for receiving the radio signals through the antenna connected with the connection unit, a mute instructing unit for detecting whether or not the terminal has been connected with the connection unit, to output the voice signals to the first speaker, in case the terminal, is not, connected with the connection unit, and to mute the output to the first speaker, in case the terminal is connected with the connection unit, a switch for selecting the... |
| Recombinant attenuated clostridium organisms and vaccine | 20070286874 | 20071213 |
| The present invention discloses attenuated Clostridium perfringens organisms that express a substantially nontoxic alpha-toxin. The expressed alpha-toxin is a deletion mutein that relative to the alpha-toxin of the mature alpha-toxin of Clostridium perfringens strain 13, is missing at least nine consecutive amino acid residues including His68. The present invention also discloses attenuated organisms that encode the muteins, as well as the use of such attenuated organisms as vaccines.
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| Sound system and method for electric model trains | 20070288109 | 20071213 |
| An electronic sound chip stores digitized sounds. A PIC processor controls sound card operation, utilizing a free comparator present in the PIC processor that detects variable DC offsets, and thereby activates at least one “voice” or channel of sound. The system self-calibrates on the initial power on, and the calibration values are measured and stored internally in non-volatile storage for later comparison against the DC offset to frequency thresholds. The system detects loss of power, which mutes the audio during power interruptions for seamless model train direction control.
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| Puncture-constrained interleaving for concatenated codes | 20070288834 | 20071213 |
| The invention relates to an encoding system and method for generating concatenated codes which utilize interleaving and data puncturing. The method includes selecting first and second puncture location sets defining desired puncture locations in non-interleaved and interleaved data sequences, respectively. A puncture-constrained interleaver is provided, which permutes the first puncture location set into the second puncture location set, so as to provide desired regular puncture patterns for all constituent codes. In a preferred embodiment, the puncture-constrained interleaving alters a symbol location relative to a puncture mask so as to satisfy a pre-defined spread or distance constraint.
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| Apparatus for demodulating address in pre-groove symbols and apparatus for decoding pre-pit symbols | 20070280072 | 20071206 |
| The invention provides an apparatus for demodulating an Address In Pre-groove (ADIP) symbol. The ADIP symbol is carried by a wobble signal of an optical disk and comprises a series of ADIP bits permuted according to one of a plurality of permutation patterns to make up the ADIP symbol. A wobble extraction module extracts the wobble signal from the optical disk. A reference wobble generator generates a reference wobble with the same frequency and phase as a fundamental frequency and phase of a positive wobble cycle of the wobble signal. A waveform difference measurement module then measures a difference between the wobble signal and the reference wobble to obtain a series of difference measurement values respectively corresponding to the ADIP bits. A pattern matching module then... |
| Digital television transmitting system and receiving system and method of processing broadcast data | 20070274401 | 20071129 |
| A DTV transmitting system includes a frame encoder, a randomizer, a block processor, a group formatter, a deinterleaver, and a packet formatter. The frame encoder builds an enhanced data frame and adds parity data into the data frame. The frame encoder further divides the data frame into first and second sub-frames including first and second portions of the parity data, respectively, and permutes a plurality of the first sub-frames and a plurality of the second sub-frames, respectively. The randomizer randomizes enhanced data in the permuted sub-frames, and the block processor codes the randomized data at a rate of 1/N1. The group formatter forms a group of enhanced data having one or more data regions and inserts the 1/N1 coded data into at least one of the... |
| System and method for combining a plurality of signals of various phases having a wide frequency range | 20070274413 | 20071129 |
| A system for combining a plurality of signals of various phases having a wide frequency range includes a signal transmuter configured to receive a plurality of input signals of different phases. The signal transmuter is also configured to generate at least one output signal based on one or more of the input signals. The system also includes at least one switch configured to receive a control signal and operable to selectively couple at least one associated capacitor to the at least one output signal. The coupling is such that the capacitor is coupled to the at least one output signal when the switch is closed. The control signal is set to substantially reduce the saturation of the at least one output signal.
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| Antibodies that bind interleukin-4 receptor | 20070274996 | 20071129 |
| The present invention relates to antibodies that bind to the IL-4 receptor, fragments, muteins, and derivatives of such antibodies, nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, fragments, muteins and derivatives, and methods of making and using such antibodies, fragments, muteins, derivatives and nucleic acids. Methods for treating medical conditions induced by interleukin-4 involve administering an IL-4 receptor binding antibody, or an IL-4 receptor binding fragment, mutein, or derivative of an IL-4 receptor binding antibody, to a patient afflicted with such a condition. Particular antibodies provided herein include human monoclonal antibodies. Certain of the antibodies inhibit both IL-4-induced and IL-13-induced biological activities.
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| Methods and apparatus for controlling multiple infrared devices | 20070269216 | 20071122 |
| A method and apparatus for controlling a plurality of infrared devices (ICDs) is provided herein. A remote controller is used to generate an optical signal for controlling a plurality of ICDs. The optical signal generated by the remote controller is converted into an electrical signal by an infrared repeater device. An implementation of such a system includes a rotary mechanical switch to direct the electrical signal generated by the infrared repeater device to a light emitting diode (LED) located near one of the plurality of ICDs. The LED converts the electrical signal into an optical signal and re-transmits the optical signal to the one of the plurality of ICDs. The system allows controlling the plurality of ICDs located in a remote location without having the user... |
| Method and system for suppressing echo during a handover | 20070270190 | 20071122 |
| A system (160) and method (500) is provided for suppressing an echo during a handover between two networks. During a handover from a first network (110) to a second network (140), a microphone to the second network can be muted (506) to suppress an echo. The handover to the second network can be conducted while maintaining a connection with the first network. Upon connecting to the second network, the microphone to the first network can be muted (510), and a network switch (512) can be performed while the microphone is muted on the first network and also muted on the second network. The microphone on the second network can then be un-muted (514) and the first call on the first network can be terminated.
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| Cable outlet element, cable outlet device, cable outlet arrangement, method for producing a cable element and the use of a cable outlet element in an aircraft | 20070251714 | 20071101 |
| A cable outlet element (101) for leading out a cable (106) that can be muted through a raceway arrangement (105) comprises a cable lead-in section (101), a raceway arrangement connection (102), a cable lead-out section (103) and a cable outlet connection (104). The raceway arrangement connection (102) can be connected to a raceway arrangement (105) such that a cable (106) that can be routed through the raceway arrangement (105) can be fed into the cable lead-in section (101). To jointly form a cable outlet aperture the cable outlet connection (104) can be connected to a cable outlet connection (111) of another cable outlet element (107) such that at the connected cable outlet connections (104,111) a cable (106) fed into the cable lead-in section (101) can be... |
| Audio output apparatus and television broadcast receiver | 20070252917 | 20071101 |
| When an abnormality occurs in a supply circuit and its output is decreased, a protect circuit detects the abnormality and outputs a protect signal to an audio circuit. The audio circuit upon detection of the protect signal stops outputting audio so that outputting of an audio noise due to a deficiency in the supplied voltage is prevented. Meanwhile, when no abnormality occurs in the supply circuit, a microcomputer controls the audio circuit by supplying it with such a signal as to allow it to output an audio, or to increase the audio volume, or with a mute signal.
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| Methods and systems for providing liquidity options and permanent legacy benefits for annuities | 20070255635 | 20071101 |
| This invention relates to methods and systems that provide annuities with at least one liquidity option that allows the holder of the liquidity option to exercise the option and convert therewith a portion of a value of the annuity into a liquid asset, such as cash or a cash value, based on the value of future income payments, which can include payments that are guaranteed to be paid for the duration of one or more lifetime. The conversion may be in a variety of forms, such as an advance of at least a portion of the future income payments, or in the form a lump sum distribution of at least a portion of a commuted value of the annuity computed based at least in part on... |
| Muting device, liquid crystal display television, and muting method | 20070242171 | 20071018 |
| A muting device includes an external sound input unit that receives an external sound and an internal sound input unit that only receives an internal sound. The external sound received by the external sound input unit has a component, which corresponds to the internal sound received by the internal sound input unit, removed therefrom. Only when the signal level of a specific kind of external sound sampled from the external sound having the internal sound component thereof removed therefrom is equal to or larger than a certain signal level, the internal sound is automatically muted. Consequently, there is provided a muting device that autonomously and accurately mutes an internal audio output responsively to a specific external sound such as a telephone ring while being unaffected by... |
| Selective muting of applications | 20070244586 | 20071018 |
| Methods, computer program products, and electronic devices are provided for managing sound in a plurality of computer-executed applications. One method includes: operating a sound manager function to provide a user with an option to selectively mute up to n−1 applications of n applications, where n>1; and in response to the user choosing to selectively mute up to n−1 applications, the sound manager function selectively muting the up to n−1 applications. Another method includes providing a user with an option to selectively mute up to n−1 applications of n applications, where n>1. In response to the user choosing to selectively mute up to n−1 applications, at least one action is performed in response to requests to play sounds by the selectively muted applications so that the sounds... |
| Circuit for eliminating abnormal sound | 20070229717 | 20071004 |
| A circuit for eliminating abnormal sound includes a video/audio processor, a D/A converter, a front-stage mute circuit, a changing delay device, a front-stage amplifier, a back-stage amplifier, a back-stage mute circuit, and a micro control unit. The circuit is mounted in a display device connected to a DVD player. When DVD player plays the video/audio signal having HDMI standard, the display device will generate an abnormal sound (pop voice or declining voice) during performing an operation such as pause, stop or play. Therefore, this circuit uses the changing delay device, the micro control unit, and the mute circuit to filter out the noise for providing a better outputting quality.
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| Digital watermark systems and methods | 20070230739 | 20071004 |
| A digital watermark is added to audio or visual content. An illustrative embodiment segments the content, permutes the segments, and transforms such data into another domain. The transformed data is altered slightly to encode a watermark. The altered data can then be inverse-transformed, and inverse-permuted, to return same to substantially its original form. Related watermark decoding methods are also detailed, as are ancillary features and techniques
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| Audiovisual (av) device and control method thereof | 20070230909 | 20071004 |
| According to one embodiment, video image and audio signals are transmitted to a plurality of electronic devices each having at least one of a video image display function and an audio reproducing function. Information indicating the fact that at least one of a video image and audio has been set in a mute state is acquired from each of the electronic devices. Based on the information, a processing operation is applied to the video image and audio signals supplied to each of the electronic devices.
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| Apparatus and method of providing flexible load and store for multimedia applications | 20070234015 | 20071004 |
| An apparatus and method of providing flexible load and store for multimedia applications are provided by the present invention, which comprising a register file, a load and store unit, a memory, a selective maskable permutable and collector load module (SMPCKM), and a control unit. The load and store unit includes a selective permutable and scatter store module (SPSSM), which can perform selective, permutable, and scatter store operation. Driving control signals by the control unit to control the operation state. With the present invention, permuting data could be efficient. The source data could be permuted arbitrarily with different operation modes according to the load and store characteristic, and then stored the source data to destination location. Moreover, the use of the load and store unit can reduce... |
| Muting conference call hold music | 20070223673 | 20070927 |
| A switching system that provides conference call functionality can mute music played into the conference call by the muting of a conference call participant. The muting of conference call music can be accomplished by controlling the switch's connection to a music on hold source or by controlling the music on hold device.
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| Muteins of tear lipocalin | 20070224633 | 20070927 |
| The present invention relates to novel muteins derived from tear lipocalin or a homologue thereof. In particular, the invention relates to a mutein of human tear lipocalin. The invention also refers to a corresponding nucleic acid molecule encoding such a mutein and to a method for its generation. The invention further refers to a method for producing such a mutein. Finally, the invention is directed to a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a lipocalin mutein as well as to various use of the mutein.
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| System and method for mobile telephone and upnp control point integration | 20070226311 | 20070927 |
| A system and method for enabling the integration of mobile telephone functions and the UPnP-enabled digital home. In an UPnP control point device, such as a UPnP mobile telephone, implementing the present invention, events such as the receipt of an incoming telephone call or message in the UPnP control point device application program interface can trigger the requesting of different UPnP actions in UPnP devices that relate to the event. In the UPnP environment, the UPnP control point device serves as a control point and transmits instructions to other devices. For example, the receipt of a phone call could cause the volume on a stereo or television to be lowered or muted, it could cause both live and taped television programs to pause, or it could... |
| Volume control | 20060291666 | 20061228 |
| A volume control may be provided with some integrated graphical indication of the presence and/or level of an audio signal that it controls. For example, a slider-type volume control may be provided with a signal meter within the slider itself. A volume control may be provided with a mechanism for showing the non-mute volume control level of a volume when the volume control is muted. For example, a slider-type volume control may display a ghosted slider tab at the level of volume control in effect before muting while at the same time displaying a regular slider tab at a muted level. A user may be able to glance at a volume control and quickly and intuitively understand aspects of the volume control's state such as the... |
| Method for coherence-filtering of acoustic array signal | 20060287830 | 20061221 |
| A method waveform processing technique utilizing signal coherence of the array data for processing signals having poor signal-to-noise ratio. Raw waveform data is first transformed into f-k (frequency-wavenumber) domain. A coherence function is then calculated and convolved with the data in the f-k domain, which effectively suppresses non-coherent signals in the data. For the remaining coherent data, the unwanted part is muted and the wanted part is retained and inverse-transformed to yield the coherence-filtered array waveform data. After this processing, small signals that are hidden in the original data are extracted with much enhanced coherence. Subsequent processing of the data yields reliable information about formation acoustic property
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| "rabbit rail" commuter light rail and city to city rail systems | 20060278122 | 20061214 |
| “RABBIT RAIL” is a light rail system that uses standard commuter busses which are fitted with railroad wheels that can be lowered, so the bus can run on railroad tracks or raised to run on roads. Present light rail systems require commuters to drive to a rural rail station where they board a railcar. They are then taken into the city station where they must now find other transportation to get to work. “RABBIT RAIL” travels on rural roads to where the commuter lives. The bus then drives to the nearest rail-on/off siding, where it lowers the rail wheels. It then drives on the rails into the city with no stops. In the city, the bus pulls onto another rail-on/off siding and raises the rail wheels.... |
| Enhanced identification system | 20060279408 | 20061214 |
| A method and an identification system used for communicating between a reader and a plurality of transponders are disclosed. The reader has a transmitter for transmitting a signal and each transponder includes a receiver for receiving the reader signal and a transmitter for generating a transponder signal. When the reader recognises a transponder signal from one of the transponders it immediately issues a mute instruction, muting all other active transponders and passing control to the said transponder, without the need for a specifically timed acknowledgement to the said controlling transponder. The reader may issue a single disable/wakeup instruction which disables the controlling transponder returning control to the reader and reactivated all muted (but not disabled) transponders.
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| Transmit spatial diversity for cellular single frequency networks | 20060280262 | 20061214 |
| Multiple-In Multiple-Out (MIMO) techniques are used to increase spectral efficiency of a cellular single frequency network. In some embodiments with single transmit antenna per cell, multiple data streams are transmitted from multiple cells, one data stream per set of transmit antennae. The mapping of streams to antenna sets is permuted in time. In this way, user equipment devices (UEs) at cell edges benefit from MIMO, and UEs near cell centers benefit from high carrier-to-interference (C/I) ratio of the signal. In some embodiments, each stream is concurrently transmitted on base layer of a hierarchically modulated signal from one set, and on enhancement layer of a hierarchically modulated signal from another set. The mapping of sets to streams is permuted in time. The UEs at cell edges benefit... |
| Voice activated phone mute reminder method and apparatus | 20060280295 | 20061214 |
| A mute feature selection reminder for use in connection with a communication device is provided. The mute feature selection reminder is activated in response to the detection of a voice signal local to the communication device while the mute feature of a communication device is activated. The mute feature selection reminder may comprise an output in the form of a visual indicator and/or an audible indicator.
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| System and method for implementing distributed priority inheritance | 20060282836 | 20061214 |
| Priority inheritance is implemented across a distributed system, preferably by use of a mutual exclusion object, referred to as a pseudo-mutex, which provides operations for communicating priority of a task which is held to a different connected processor or node of a network and generating a dummy local command of priority at least equal to that of the held task at the remote processor or node in collaboration with a real-time operating system and middleware. The remote real time operating system then carries out priority inheritance in the normal manner to raise the priority of a blocked task, thus reversing any preemption of that task at the remote processor or node. The increase in priority avoids preemption of lower priority processes and thus increases the execution... |
| Method and apparatus for controlling image data in a wireless terminal with normal video communication mode and image mute mode | 20060276126 | 20061207 |
| A method and apparatus for controlling video data in a wireless terminal having a normal video communication mode and a video mute mode is provided. The wireless terminal can be switched to the video mute mode if a user selects the video mute mode during normal video communication mode, thereby enabling video data preselected by the user to be presented on the terminal's display and transmitted to a distant party. The terminal can also display and transmit preselected video data if no video data is received from a distant party within a given time.
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| Vehicle tracker having selectable transceiver mute mode and associated methods | 20060276199 | 20061207 |
| A vehicle tracking system for a vehicle may include a wireless transceiver that is switchable from a mute mode to an operational mode. The wireless transceiver when in the mute mode may receive signals from a communications network, but does not transmit signals to the communications network. The wireless transceiver when in the operational mode may receive and transmit signals with the communications network. A position-determining device at the vehicle may be for determining a geographic position thereof. A controller at the vehicle may be for switching the wireless transceiver from the mute mode to the operational mode based upon the vehicle position being outside a predetermined area. Alternately, The vehicle tracking system may include a switch at the vehicle, and the controller may switch the... |
| Apparatus and method for blocking audio/visual programming and for muting audio | 20060277564 | 20061207 |
| A program blocking application that blocks programming for one or more possible users, based on various criteria associated with the program. A program word muting application that selectively mutes context specific words as a function of program specific criteria.
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| Interleukin-2 muteins | 20060269515 | 20061130 |
| Novel human interleukin-2 (IL-2) muteins or variants thereof, and nucleic acid molecules and variants thereof are provided. Methods for producing these muteins as well as methods for stimulating the immune system of an animal are also disclosed. In addition, the invention provides recombinant expression vectors comprising the nucleic acid molecules of this invention and host cells into which expression vectors have been introduced. Pharmaceutical compositions are included comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a human IL-2 mutein of the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The IL-2 muteins have lower toxicity than native IL-2 or Proleukin® IL-2, while maintaining or enhancing NK cell-mediated effects, and can be used in pharmaceutical compositions for use in treatment of cancer, and in stimulating the immune response.
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| Decoder and decoding method for decoding irregular low-density parity-check codes | 20060271616 | 20061130 |
| According to one embodiment, bit processing units are provided for the 1st to Mth rows (M=p1×m1) of a parity-check matrix that includes a first parity-check matrix and second parity-check matrix adjacent thereto. The first and second parity-check matrices include (n1×m1) permuted matrices and (n2×m2) permuted matrices, respectively. The bit processing units sequentially update bit information corresponding to column positions included in the respective rows of the first and second parity-check matrices, a bit at each of the column positions being set to “1”. Parity processing units update parity information corresponding to row positions in p1 columns of each of the n1 column blocks of the first parity-check matrix, and corresponding to row positions in p2 columns of each of the n2 column blocks of the second... |
| Remote control | 20060271968 | 20061130 |
| Methods, devices, and computer program products describe a remote control for consumer electronics devices. The remote control has multiple transceivers simultaneously receiving multiple streams of content, and multiple displays simultaneously presenting the streams of content. The remote control includes means for switching between multiple sources for each stream of content displayed on each display. The multiple sources may include wireless content from a wireless source, cable content from a cable service provider, satellite content from a satellite service provider, broadband content from a broadband service provider, and local content from a local source. The remote control also has a communication mode when a voice over internet protocol telephone call is received. One of the transceivers terminates its stream of content and a processor mutes an audible... |
| Therapeutic use of tumor necrosis factor-alpha mutein | 20060263331 | 20061123 |
| Improved methods for treating neoplastic diseases such as cancer are provided by using muteins of human tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α). Compared to wild-type human TNF-α these therapeutic TNF muteins have higher specific anti-tumor activity, but with much reduced systemic toxicity and milder side effects such chills and fever. In addition, potentially synergistic, novel combinations of the inventive TNF-α muteins with other anti-neoplastic agents are provided for effectively treating patients having particular types of cancer or malignancy or at particular stages of cancer development, and for mitigating resistance of the patients to treatment of non-TNF antineoplastic agents.
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| Method of making an armature | 20060254046 | 20061116 |
| An armature for an electric motor has a lamination stack on a shaft with a commutator mounted on one end of the shaft. Magnet wires wound in slots in the lamination stack, the commutator and armature shaft are at least partially encapsulated in a first plastic, such as by insert molding. The commutator has a commutator ring divided into a plurality of segments with slots between the segments that are filled with a second plastic when the commutator is made by molding a core of the second plastic, such as phenolic, in the commutator ring before the commutator ring is mounted on the armature shaft. Where the commutator is a tang type commutator, the commutator ring has notches at axial ends of the slots which is... |
| Systems and methods for facsimile echo cancellation | 20060250997 | 20061109 |
| The present invention is related to methods and systems for reducing or canceling echoes during fax communications. In an embodiment, during a fax call, a first fax signal from a first fax device intended for a second fax device is detected. Based at least in part on detecting the first fax signal from the first fax device or on the termination of the first fax signal, an echo audio packet is muted, wherein the echo audio packet is at least partly the result of the first fax signal being transmitted over a network, the network including at least a data network.
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| Monomeric streptavidin muteins | 20060246519 | 20061102 |
| The invention includes a streptavidin mutein having at least one mutation chosen to cause one or more of steric hindrance, charge repulsion, or improvement of solubility by changing interfacial hydrophobic residues to less hydrophobic or hydrophilic residues. The mutein may exist in monomeric form even in the presence of biotin, and reversibly binds to biotin. The invention also includes polynucleotides encoding such muteins, expression systems and host cells for producing such muteins. The invention also includes a method of capturing biotinylated molecules using the muteins of the invention.
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| Methods for treating tweak-related conditions | 20060240004 | 20061026 |
| The present invention provides methods and agents for the treatment of TWEAK-related conditions, including cardiac, liver, kidney, lung, adipose, skeletal, muscle, neuronal, bone and cartilage conditions. The invention also provides methods for identifying TWEAK agonists or antagonists for the treatment of TWEAK-related conditions. Additionally, the invention provides transgenic animals that express an exogenous DNA encoding a TWEAK polypeptide, or fragments, analogs, or muteins thereof, and methods for using such animals to identify TWEAK agonists or antagonists. The invention further provides methods for diagnosing a disease based on TWEAK expression. The invention also provides methods for affecting cellular differentiation of progenitor cells using TWEAK polypeptides, agonists, or antagonists.
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| Method for reverse link congestion overload control in wireless high speed data applications | 20060233110 | 20061019 |
| The number of Reverse Activity Bits (RABs) equal to “1” per frame is a Congestion Overload (CO) metric used to determine whether the reverse link in a wireless communications system is in a congestion overload state due to a reverse link RF overload. When the value of the CO metric exceeds a first predetermined threshold that is indicative of a congestion overload condition, the system enters a block state where all new connection requests are blocked. Once in the block state, if the value of the CO metric does not decrease but continues to increase and exceeds a second higher threshold, the system enters a mute state. In the mute state a predetermined large percentage of existing active calls are muted. Specifically, a message is sent... |
| Sign language interpretation system and a sign language interpretation method | 20060234193 | 20061019 |
| A sign language interpretation system has a function to interconnect a deaf-mute person terminal, a non-deaf-mute person terminal, and a sign language interpreter terminal, and a function to synthesize a video/audio signal received from each terminal and to transmit a synthesized signal to each terminal in order to provide a videophone conversation service via sign language interpretation between the deaf-mute person and the non-deaf-mute person. A controller includes a sign language interpreter registration table in which the selection information and terminal number of a sign language interpreter as well as an availability flag are registered. An available sign language interpreter satisfying the selection conditions specified by a caller is selected by way of a call from the deaf-mute person or non-deaf-mute person. The terminal for sign... |
| Chat server mute capability | 20060235932 | 20061019 |
| A method for enhancing chat sessions to include a server based mute capability. The method can include the step of a chat server receiving a mute indicator from at least one client participating in a chat session established by the chat server. The chat server can determine from the mute indicator at least one designated participant that is to be muted. The chat server can mute communications between the designated participant and the indicator conveying participant without affecting chat server actions related to other participants of the chat session.
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| Television remote control with settable high/low volume control buttons | 20060227251 | 20061012 |
| A television remote with two settable volume level buttons. The “High” button could be selected for normal television listening sound level. The “Low” button could be selected for a lower listening sound level, an alternative to the mute sound button.
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| Data access and permute unit | 20060227966 | 20061012 |
| According to embodiments of the invention, there is disclosed a data processing unit, a method of operating the same, computer program product and an instruction. In one embodiment according to the invention, there is provided a data processing unit for a computer processor, the data processing unit comprising a deep register access mechanism capable of performing a permutation operation on at least one data operand accessed from a register file of the computer processor, the permutation operation being performed in series with (i) register access for the data operand and (ii) execution of a data processing operation on the operand.
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| Television program highlight tagging | 20060218573 | 20060928 |
| An improved audio-visual playback system which identifies and displays only high-interest segments of a program, according to peaks or thresholds of positive and negative user interaction events from a multitude of other users of the program. A personal video recorder which receives a history of positive user interaction events such as “thumbs up” approval events, jump backward events, and rewind events, and negative user interaction events such as “thumbs down” disapproval events, jump forward events, and fast forward events. If prior viewers gave high interest approval for a segment, either by affirmatively voting “thumbs up” or by rewatching the segment, the playback system plays that segment; otherwise the segment is skipped or muted, such that user can watch only the “highlights”.
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| Systems and methods for reducing uplink resources to provide channel performance feedback for adjustment of downlink mimo channel data rates | 20060205357 | 20060914 |
| Systems and methods for improving the performance of a MIMO wireless communication system by reducing the amount of uplink resources that are needed to provide channel performance feedback for the adjustment of data rates on the downlink MIMO channels. In one embodiment, a method comprises encoding each of a set of data streams according to corresponding data rates, permuting the data streams on a set of MIMO channels according to a full permutation of combinations, transmitting the permuted data streams, receiving the permuted data streams, decoding and determining an SNR for each of the data streams, computing a condensed SNR metric for the set of data streams, providing the condensed metric as feedback, determining a set of individual SNR metrics for the data streams based on... |
| Preparation of deallergenized proteins and permuteins | 20060206962 | 20060914 |
| Modified proteins are disclosed that maintain enzymatic and insecticidal activity while displaying reduced or eliminated allergenicity. Epitopes which bind to anti-patatin antibodies were identified, and removed via site directed mutagenesis. Tyrosines were observed to generally contribute to the allergenic properties of patatin proteins. Removal of glycosylation sites was observed to reduce or eliminate antibody binding. Permuteins are also disclosed which have a rearranged amino acid sequence while retaining enzymatic activity. Deallergenized proteins and permuteins can be used as insecticidal materials, as nutritional supplements, and as immunotherapeutic agents.
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| Apparatus for mixing, controlling and distributing audio signals | 20060198540 | 20060907 |
| The mixed signal connector (201) is connected to the computers soundcard's (701) auxiliary input connection (801). Output from the computer's soundcard (802, 803, 804) is connected back to the device via 3 connectors (201, 202, 203). A switch or knob (501) directs the audio signal to either the devices speaker output connectors (301, 302, 303) or the devices headphone connector (401).
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| Method and system for muting audio based on a call event | 20060193459 | 20060831 |
| A muting system that allows audio of a computing device to be automatically muted when a telephone call is received on a telephone number associated with the computing device is provided. When an incoming call event occurs for that telephone number, the computing device directs a software component to mute the audio. When the muting system subsequently receives a call event indicating that the call has terminated, it may automatically un-mute or resume the software components. The muting system may allow a user to manually specify to un-mute or resume the software components.
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| A/v parental lock apparatus and method | 20060190962 | 20060824 |
| Provided are an apparatus and method for restricting A/V listening and viewing using parental levels. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a parental level detected from a video signal is compared with a level set by a user, and previously buffered video and audio are repeatedly output if the detected parental level is higher than the level set by the user. The parental level is included and transmitted in a video line of a broadcast signal. Also, the repeatedly output video is a still image or a moving image, and the repeatedly output audio is audio between two audio mute periods finally detected. Accordingly, there is no case when a user waits for nothing while viewing a black screen in a mute state, while... |
| Method of controlling portable media players speaker and video image | 20060190969 | 20060824 |
| A removable vehicle entertainment system is provided. The system includes a video display screen for displaying entertainment to an occupant of the vehicle. The system can be removed from the docking bracket in the vehicle, and attached to an external docking station such that the system can be used independently of the power supply and speakers of the vehicle. Further, the system can be used as a self-contained personal entertainment system. The system includes mechanical and/or electrical componentry that determines audio mute and video display configuration based on a power signal and a docked signal.
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