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20100121433 | RECONFIGURING HEART FEATURES - Among other things, a support for living tissue includes gripping elements to attach to the living tissue and to hold the support securely in place. An annular structure is coupled to the gripping elements. The annular structure adjusts the support between a first configuration for installing the support and a second configuration in which the support is held securely in place after installation. The annular structure is self-supporting in the first and second configurations. | 05-13-2010 |
20100249920 | RECONFIGURING HEART FEATURES - Among other things, a heart tissue support has a ring-shaped body and gripping elements, each gripping element having a free end that is sharp enough to penetrate heart tissue when pushed against the tissue, and a feature to resist withdrawal of the gripping element from the tissue after the sharp free end has penetrated the tissue. Among other things, a tool to attach a support to a heart valve annulus has splaying elements that spread apart to hold the support in an expanded configuration prior to attachment. Among other things, an apparatus includes polygonal elements connected along corners of the elements to form a ring, the polygonal elements being capable of expanding and contracting, and gripping elements attached to points of the polygonal elements. Among other things, a method includes using a delivery tool to expand a support and a heart valve annulus to one diameter. | 09-30-2010 |
20150142105 | RECONFIGURING TISSUE FEATURES OF A HEART ANNULUS - Among other things, a tool to attach a support to a heart valve annulus includes a stabilizing body that includes features to stabilize an axial position of the tool relative to the annulus, and an attachment device connected to the stabilizing body, the stabilizing body and the attachment device being movable relative to one another under control from a location remote from the tool, from one configuration in which the support is held in a pre-attachment contracted state to another configuration in which the support is held in an expanded state for attachment at multiple locations around the annulus by action from the remote location. Among other things, an apparatus includes structural elements, and gripping elements, and configuration elements attached to the respective structural elements and each controllable to permit or prevent the ring from expanding. | 05-21-2015 |
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20120088957 | SUBCUTANEOUS PIEZOELECTRIC BONE CONDUCTION HEARING AID ACTUATOR AND SYSTEM - An implantable bone-conduction hearing actuator based on a piezoelectric element, such as a unimorph or bimorph cantilever bender, is described. Unlike other implantable bone conduction hearing actuators, the device is subcutaneous and once implanted is entirely invisible. The device excites bending in bone through a local bending moment rather than the application of a point force as with conventional bone-anchored hearing aids. | 04-12-2012 |
20130136279 | Personal Listening Device - Among other things, an audio device for transmission of sound information to a user's pinna is disclosed, the device having an actuator and a rigid backing attached to the actuator so as to form a gap without walls between the actuator and the backing. | 05-30-2013 |
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20140306581 | PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS AND METHODS OF PROPERTY CONTROL - Among other things, piezoelectric materials and methods of their manufacture are described; particularly methods of forming regions of varying crystal structure within a relaxor piezoelectric substrate. Such methods may including heating the piezoelectric substrate above the transition temperature and below the Curie temperature such that a first phase transition occurs to a first crystal structure; rapidly cooling the piezoelectric substrate below the transition temperature at a cooling rate that is sufficiently high for the first crystal structure to persist; and applying an electric field through one or more selected regions of the piezoelectric substrate, such that within the one or more selected regions, a second phase transition occurs and results in a second crystal structure. | 10-16-2014 |
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20090154688 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CALL DISTRIBUTION - Aspects of systems and methods for maintaining and operating agent nodes are provided. In some embodiments, calls, contacts, and other work units may be routed to individual customer service agents via a centralized queue based on a variety of factors. Some embodiments may provide market-based call pricing and customer service agent compensation. | 06-18-2009 |
20110051920 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER CONTACT - A user of a personal computing device may identify an item of interest displayed in a user interface provided by a network-based service and would like to obtain more information. The user may submit one or more electronic contact requests to a contact service in communication with a contact distribution system in order to obtain more information. The contact distribution system determines accurate, real-time availability of service agents and enables communications between the customer and an agent to be established in accordance with user contact information provided by the user. | 03-03-2011 |
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20080267076 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system and apparatus for maintaining a communication system is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computer-readable storage medium in a maintenance server of a communication system, comprising computer instructions for monitoring for installed components in interconnected Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks of the communication system based at least in part on provisioning records for each of the interconnected DSL networks, filtering telemetry and maintenance data associated with the installed components in the interconnected DSL networks according to criteria comprising actual criteria and predictive criteria, monitoring for a fault in the installed components based at least in part on the telemetry and maintenance data associated with the actual criteria, and predicting a potential fault in the installed components based at least in part on the telemetry and maintenance data associated with the predictive criteria. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 10-30-2008 |
20090217097 | PORTAL FACILITATING TELECOMMUNICATION INSTALLATION AND REPAIR SERVICES - A web server includes software to support a remotely accessible web portal for installation and repair services in conjunction with a telecommunication service provided to a customer by a provider. The software includes instructions to provide a first I&R user interface, including a plurality of selectable I&R objects in response to a first input from a remote field device, receive a second input from the remote field device indicating a user's selection of one of the I&R objects, generate a request to invoke an I&R application in response to receiving the input, transmit the request to invoke the I&R application to an I&R system, receive I&R data generated by the I&R application from the I&R system, and convey information indicative of the I&R data to the remote field device. | 08-27-2009 |
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20130071843 | METHODS, PROBE SETS, AND KITS FOR DETECTION OF DELETION OF TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENES BY FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION - Methods, probe sets, kits, and compositions for gene deletion assays are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods relate to preparing probes for a deletion assay, performing a deletion assay, or optimizing a deletion assay. In some embodiments, the methods and probe sets can provide reduced artifactual deletion frequency, for example, when analyzing samples subject to truncation artifacts. In some embodiments, the methods and probe sets can distinguish between small and large deletions. | 03-21-2013 |
20150197817 | METHODS, PROBE SETS, AND KITS FOR DETECTION OF DELETION OF TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENES BY FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION - Methods, probe sets, kits, and compositions for gene deletion assays are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods relate to preparing probes for a deletion assay, performing a deletion assay, or optimizing a deletion assay. In some embodiments, the methods and probe sets can provide reduced artifactual deletion frequency, for example, when analyzing samples subject to truncation artifacts. In some embodiments, the methods and probe sets can distinguish between small and large deletions. | 07-16-2015 |
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20120021785 | Method and System for Transmission and Display of Rich-Media Alerts - There is provided a method and system of generating a rich-media message using a short message service (SMS) message. In one aspect, the method comprises encoding data and rich-media content information to generate an encoded rich-media message, and formatting the encoded rich-media message into a rich-media SMS message. In one aspect, the method includes transmitting the rich-media SMS over a network, In another aspect, the method includes receiving the rich-media SMS by a mobile device, decoding the SMS, and displaying the message. The method may include obtaining rich-media content from a server. In one embodiment, a system for communicating a rich-media message to a mobile device comprises an alerts generator configured to encode a rich-media message and format the message into a rich-media SMS, a content server configured to provide rich-media content to a mobile device configured to decode and display the rich-media SMS. | 01-26-2012 |
20130303210 | Method and System for Transmission and Display of Rich-Media Alerts - There is provided a method and system of generating a rich-media message using a short message service (SMS) message. In one aspect, the method comprises encoding data and rich-media content information to generate an encoded rich-media message, and formatting the encoded rich-media message into a rich-media SMS message. In one aspect, the method includes transmitting the rich-media SMS over a network. In another aspect, the method includes receiving the rich-media SMS by a mobile device, decoding the SMS, and displaying the message. The method may include obtaining rich-media content from a server. In one embodiment, a system for communicating a rich-media message to a mobile device comprises an alerts generator configured to encode a rich-media message and format the message into a rich-media SMS, a content server configured to provide rich-media content to a mobile device configured to decode and display the rich-media SMS. | 11-14-2013 |
20150304826 | Method and System for Transmission and Display of Rich-Media Messages - There is provided a method of processing a rich-media message by a mobile device having a display, a mobile device operating system and a software application. The method includes receiving the rich-media message over a network by the mobile device, depacketizing the rich-media message by the mobile device operating system to retrieve an encoded rich-media message and address data in the rich-media message, and activating the software application on the mobile device by the mobile device operating system based on the address data in the rich-media message. The method also includes decoding the encoded rich-media message by the software application to generate rich-media content information, determining, using the rich-media content information, whether a rich-media element identified by the rich-media content information is resident on the mobile device, and if the determining determines that the rich-media element is resident on the mobile device, displaying the rich-media element on the display. | 10-22-2015 |