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20090063983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTING CONTENT, USER PRESENCE AND INTERACTION WITHIN VIRTUAL WORLD ADVERTISING ENVIRONMENTS - A control system renders a shared virtual environment to one or more users and obtains metadata associated with content accessed by the users. Representations based on the gathered metadata are provided to a viewing user, and may include visual elements serving as host, content and/or presence representations. Applicable representations are identified from a plurality of defined possible content representations based on the metadata associated with and obtained for a hosting user. The representations may be descriptive of a variety of parameters, including but not limited to the type, timing, nature or other parameters associated with content currently being accessed by a hosting user, content available from the hosting user, a future schedule for content access, time remaining for the hosting user to remain within a shared virtual environment, the hosting user's social network status relative to the viewing user. Presence representations may be displayed to provide information on a hosting user's presence availability within a shared virtual environment elative to one or more determined time slots. | 03-05-2009 |
20100142521 | Just-in-time near live DJ for internet radio - A system and method for providing near live disc jockey (DJ) audio commentary segments or snippets to a client device including one of an internet radio station host streaming device or a user mobile device for real-time insertion into a music playlist. The system is operative to transmit metadata segment packets to the client device; transmit audio content segment packets to the client device, with the audio content segment packets matching directly to the metadata segment packets. The system also receives usage segment packets as a response from the client device. | 06-10-2010 |
20100146009 | Method of DJ commentary analysis for indexing and search - A method of conducting a disc jockey (DJ) commentary analysis for indexing and search is provided. More specifically, a method is provided for automatically generating metadata related to commentary of media segments to enable tagging, storing and context relevant searching. Speech-to-text conversion technology and audio/video analysis are used to generate content and metadata. Subject matter is then identified and filtered to a predetermined set of subjects. Metadata tags and context profiles for the media segments are generated to index the media segments. Moreover, context information of the user is used to generate a context profile of the user in a format similar to that of the media segment. Indexed media segments are searched to match with the user context profile and a relevant media segment is presented to the user. | 06-10-2010 |
20110113098 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORK TRUST ASSESSMENT - A first user's trust level with regard to a second user can be determined by providing questions to the second user, with the questions based on a previously-collected knowledge base including information about the first user. The information about the first user may be partitioned into levels of trust, and the second user's responses to the questions may be evaluated to determine which level of trust the second user is entitled to. The knowledge base may be assembled by prompting the first user for information and/or by scanning or otherwise collecting already-existing data about the first user. The knowledge base and/or trust assessment may be distributed across a network, and in some embodiments the knowledge base or parts thereof is distributed to other users according to the trust level of those users. | 05-12-2011 |
20120291137 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORK TRUST ASSESSMENT - A first user's trust level with regard to a second user can be determined by providing questions to the second user, with the questions based on a previously-collected knowledge base including information about the first user. The information about the first user may be partitioned into levels of trust, and the second user's responses to the questions may be evaluated to determine which level of trust the second user is entitled to. The knowledge base may be assembled by prompting the first user for information and/or by scanning or otherwise collecting already-existing data about the first user. The knowledge base and/or trust assessment may be distributed across a network, and in some embodiments the knowledge base or parts thereof is distributed to other users according to the trust level of those users. | 11-15-2012 |
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20090011940 | System and method for using a vacuum core high temperature superconducting resonator - A system for resonating. In one aspect, the system may include a temperature controlled, vacuum chamber. The chamber may include a primary superconductive coil having first and second ends and wrapped around a first non-conductive cylindrical form, where each of the first and second ends of the primary superconductive coil is coupled to a terminal of a driver, a secondary superconductive coil having first and second ends and wrapped around a second non-conductive cylindrical form, where a first end is coupled to a ground, and a tertiary superconductive coil having first and second ends and wrapped around a third non-conductive cylindrical form, where a first end is connected to a top load and a second end is coupled to the second end of the secondary superconductive coil. In one aspect, the top load is connected to an electrode, at least a portion of the electrode is located outside the chamber, and the first non-conductive cylindrical form at least partially surrounds the second non-conductive cylindrical form. | 01-08-2009 |
20090134711 | Methods and systems for wireless energy and data transmission - System and methods for wireless energy and data transmission are described. One aspect includes an emitter and receiver. The emitter may include primary and secondary emitting windings. The receiver may include primary and secondary receiver windings. In further aspects, the emitter may include a tertiary emitting winding and the receiver may include a tertiary receiver winding. In one aspect, the emitter uses driving circuitry and the receiver uses rectifying circuitry and one or more capacitors. In further aspects, the emitter and receiver are reversible. | 05-28-2009 |
20090303760 | Resonant transformer systems and methods of use - Resonant transformer systems and methods of use are described. One aspect may include a primary winding, a secondary winding, and at least one output winding. In further aspects, a transformer may be coupled to the secondary winding. In one aspect, the output winding is coupled to rectifying circuitry, which may be coupled to one or more capacitors. | 12-10-2009 |
20110163729 | Resonant transformer systems and methods of use - Resonant transformer systems and methods of use are described. One aspect may include a primary winding, a secondary winding, and at least one output winding. In further aspects, a transformer may be coupled to the secondary winding. In one aspect, the output winding is coupled to rectifying circuitry, which may be coupled to one or more capacitors. | 07-07-2011 |
20110165837 | Methods and systems for wireless energy and data transmission - System and methods for wireless energy and data transmission are described. One aspect includes an emitter and receiver. The emitter may include primary and secondary emitting windings. The receiver may include primary and secondary receiver windings. In further aspects, the emitter may include a tertiary emitting winding and the receiver may include a tertiary receiver winding. In one aspect, the emitter uses driving circuitry and the receiver uses rectifying circuitry and one or more capacitors. In further aspects, the emitter and receiver are reversible. | 07-07-2011 |
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20110159856 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF LOCATION BASED TELECOMMUNICATION AUTHORIZATION - An apparatus and method directed to automated call screening, and specifically the utilization of location history of a call recipient to determine call authorization, are provided. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a computer readable medium embodied in an article of manufacture is encoded with instructions for directing a processor to receive a request from a first device to communicate with a second device. The processor is further directed to determine at least one location associated with the first device, determine an authorization for the request based at least in part upon the at least one location associated with the first device and at least one prior location of the second device, and transmit the request to the second device in accordance with the authorization. | 06-30-2011 |
20110191692 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR E-BOOK CONTEXTUAL COMMUNICATION - A computerized system and method for providing a service that processes a user's edit and reading events to determine one or more electronic book, or e-book, contexts for the user is disclosed. In particular, the service calculates a contextual affinity the user has with other users based on e-book contexts for the e-book contexts. The service may automatically establish voice and/or text communication sessions for users identified as having a significant degree of affinity with the user. Once a communication session is established, a user can conveniently collaborate with other users for which commonly determined contexts are relevant. Moreover, the present disclosure also describes how a user can modify incoming text, voice, and notification messages to have an individualized presentation to other users based upon the degree of contextual affinity between various users. | 08-04-2011 |
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20100109857 | Trailer Tire Pressure Monitoring System - A system and method that, upon connection of a trailer to a tow vehicle, a trailer brake controller informs a tire pressure monitoring system to begin monitoring information at the TPMS and at the same time, activates the initiators, i.e., the electromagnets. Sensors respond to the electromagnetic field that is generated by electric brake magnets. As a result, the sensors transmit RF signals that are received by the tire pressure monitoring system. Transmissions from the sensors are decoded in a controller and processed as necessary for tire pressure monitoring automatically calibrated to the tire pressure monitoring system and the system can request the pressure data from the sensors by way of the low frequency field generated by the electric brakes | 05-06-2010 |
20100156667 | TRAILER IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM - A system and method that, upon connection of a trailer to a tow vehicle, recognizes the trailer and applies a stored trailer configuration in a controller. In one embodiment, tire pressure sensors transmit RF signals that are received by the tire pressure monitoring system. Transmissions from the sensors are decoded in a controller and processed to identify, or create a particular trailer configuration as well as implement tire pressure monitoring automatically calibrated to the particular trailer configuration based on the sensor identifications for the tire pressure sensors. In another embodiment, the trailer configuration includes a pulse width modulated gain control for the trailer brakes. | 06-24-2010 |
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20130154796 | Secure Profile Setting In A Shared Device - There is provided a system for secure profile setting that includes at least one shared device and an RFID reader module embedded in the at least one shared device. The system further includes a database that is in communication with the at least one shared device. In the system, an RFID transponder module associated with a user transmits a signal that enables the at least one shared device to identify the user. The RFID transponder module can include a fingerprint scanner module, which can be used to acquire a user's fingerprint data to authenticate the user. Thus, after identifying the user, the at least one shared device retrieves a profile corresponding to the user from the database and sets the profile. | 06-20-2013 |
20140052912 | MEMORY DEVICE WITH A LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL BANK MAPPING CACHE - A memory device with a logical-to-physical (LTP) bank mapping cache that supports multiple read and write accesses is described herein. The memory device allows for at least one read operation and one write operation to be received during the same clock cycle. In the event that the incoming write operation is not blocked by the at least one read operation, data for that incoming write operation may be stored in the physical memory bank corresponding to a logical memory bank that is associated with the incoming write operation. In the event that the incoming write operation is blocked by the at least one read operation, then data for that incoming write operation may be stored in an unmapped physical bank that is not associated with any logical memory bank. | 02-20-2014 |
20150074474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ON-THE-FLY INCREMENTAL MEMORY REPAIR - A device for repairing a memory device may include spare memory blocks that may replace corresponding memory blocks that include at least one non-operational memory cell. One or more registers may be coupled in a chain to store memory repair information. A memory repair module may identify, upon a power-up test of the memory device, non-operational memory cells, which are incremental to previously identified defective memory cells in previous power-up tests, and may provide corresponding memory repair information of the identified non-operational memory cells. A logic circuit may block access to one or more registers and may facilitate storing, in one or more unblocked registers, the corresponding memory repair information of the identified one or more non-operational memory cells. The memory repair module may swap a memory block including the identified non-operational memory cells with a spare memory block based on content of the one or more unblocked registers. | 03-12-2015 |
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20090080235 | COMPACT AND HIGHLY EFFICIENT DRAM CELL - A compact dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cell and highly efficient methods for using the DRAM cell are disclosed. The DRAM cell provides reading, writing, and storage of a data bit on an ASIC chip. The DRAM cell includes a first transistor acting as a pass gate and having a first source node, a first gate node, and a first drain node. The DRAM cell also includes a second transistor acting as a storage device and having a second drain node that is electrically connected to the first drain node to form a storage node. The second transistor also includes a second source node and a second gate node. The second source node is electrically floating, thus increasing the effective storage capacitance of the storage node. | 03-26-2009 |
20100202190 | COMPACT AND HIGHLY EFFICIENT DRAM CELL - A compact dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cell and highly efficient methods for using the DRAM cell are disclosed. The DRAM cell provides reading, writing, and storage of a data bit on an ASIC chip. The DRAM cell includes a first transistor acting as a pass gate and having a first source node, a first gate node, and a first drain node. The DRAM cell also includes a second transistor acting as a storage device and having a second drain node that is electrically connected to the first drain node to form a storage node. The second transistor also includes a second source node and a second gate node. The second source node is electrically floating, thus increasing the effective storage capacitance of the storage node, | 08-12-2010 |