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20120202459 | Providing a Service With Location-Based Authorization - Methods and systems for providing a service are provided. A request is received to provide the service to a device. A location of the device, or a network interface through which the device is coupled, is determined. Finally, the delivery of the service is authorized based on the determined location of the device, or the determined network interface. | 08-09-2012 |
20130080777 | Delivering A Content Item From A Server To A Device - Methods and systems for delivering a segmented content item from a server to a first and second device are provided. A first key is used to encrypt the segmented content item into a first plurality of encrypted segments and a second key is used to encrypt the segmented content item into a second plurality of encrypted segments. The first and second keys are different. The first plurality of encrypted segments is delivered to the first device, and the second plurality of encrypted segments is delivered to the second device. | 03-28-2013 |
20130086619 | MEDIA RELAY - A method, system and computer program product for displaying media is provided herein. The method includes the steps of receiving, at a media server, streaming media from a source device located at a first user's premises and transmitting the streaming media from the media server to a display device at the second user's premises. The media server is located remotely from both the first user's premises and the second user's premises. The first user's premises and the second user's premises may be the same. The media server may be located at a cable television headend. | 04-04-2013 |
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20140217164 | System and method for downloading a live performance through use of a QR code - A system and method for downloading a live performance held at a venue using a QR code comprising a server, including a memory, processor, and content management system, and a computer, including a memory, processor, scanner, and software. The content management system is stored in the memory and adapted to run on the processor of the server, and is adapted to provide a website, transmit a corresponding link to the computer, receive information from the computer relating to a QR code, and transmit data to the computer through the internet. The software is stored in the memory and adapted to run on the processor of the computer, and is adapted to scan a QR code, associate it with a link for a live performance download, communicate, through the internet, with the content management system, receive, from the content management system, data pertaining to the download; and download the live performance. | 08-07-2014 |
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20130112076 | RECOVERY OF Xe AND OTHER HIGH VALUE COMPOUNDS - A system and method for recovering high value gas from a process stream, material or environment containing same, e.g., xenon by contacting gas from the process stream, material or environment with a carbon adsorbent effective to sorptively capture same, free of or with reduced concentration of fluid species present with the high value gas in the high value gas-containing gas in the process stream, material or environment. Other aspects of the disclosure include a radon detection method and product. | 05-09-2013 |
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20140027352 | CARBON ADSORBENT AND PROCESS FOR SEPARATING HIGH-OCTANE COMPONENTS FROM LOW-OCTANE COMPONENTS IN A NAPTHA RAFFINATE STREAM USING SUCH CARBON ADSORBENT - A carbon adsorbent having the characteristics of: a nitrogen micropore volume at 77° K, measured as liquid capacity, that is greater than 0.30 mL/g; a neopentane capacity measured at 273° K and 1 bar, measured as liquid capacity, that is less than 7% of the nitrogen micropore volume, measured as liquid capacity; and an access pore size in a range of from 0.50 to 0.62 nm. Such adsorbent is usefully employed for contacting with hydrocarbon mixtures to adsorb low-octane, linear and mono- or di-substituted alkanes therefrom, and thereby increase octane rating, e.g., of an isomerization naphtha raffinate. Adsorption processes and apparatus are also described, in which the carbon adsorbent can be utilized for production of higher octane rating hydrocarbon mixtures. | 01-30-2014 |
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20080244529 | PROFILE NORMALIZATION IN AN AUTONOMIC SOFTWARE SYSTEM - There is provided an autonomic software system and method for normalizing a profile collected for an executing application to account for one or more actions applied to the executing application after the profile was collected, comprising: predicting an impact of applying the one or more actions to the executing application by utilizing the profile and the one or more actions; and adjusting the profile to form a normalized profile according to the predicted impact. A plurality of different a profile consumers, such as, a phase shift detector, an action evaluator as well as a normalizing controller, may utilize the normalized profile to improve the behavior of the executing application. In addition, online visualization tools may be implemented to graphically depict the normalized profiles, as well as differences between the collected profiles and the normalized profiles. | 10-02-2008 |
20080244548 | PROFILE NORMALIZATION IN AN AUTONOMIC SOFTWARE SYSTEM - There is provided an autonomic software system and method for normalizing a profile collected for an executing application to account for one or more actions applied to the executing application after the profile was collected, comprising: predicting an impact of applying the one or more actions to the executing application by utilizing the profile and the one or more actions; and adjusting the profile to form a normalized profile according to the predicted impact. A plurality of different a profile consumers, such as, a phase shift detector, an action evaluator as well as a normalizing controller, may utilize the normalized profile to improve the behavior of the executing application. In addition, online visualization tools may be implemented to graphically depict the normalized profiles, as well as differences between the collected profiles and the normalized profiles. | 10-02-2008 |
20080288957 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING COMMUNICATION IN MPI PROGRAMS FOR AN EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for mapping application tasks to processors in a computing environment that takes into account the hardware communication topology of a machine and an application communication pattern. The hardware communication topology (HCT) is defined according to hardware parameters affecting communication between two tasks, such as connectivity, bandwidth and latency; and, the application communication pattern (ACP) is defined to mean the number and size of bytes that are communicated between the different pairs of communicating tasks. By collecting information on the messages exchanged by the tasks that communicate, the communication pattern of the application may be determined. By combing the HCT and ACP a cost model for a given mapping can be determined. Any algorithm computing a mapping can use the HCT, ACP, and the cost model, thus the combination of an HCT, ACP, and cost model allow an automatically optimized mapping of tasks to processing elements to be achieved | 11-20-2008 |
20090089509 | CACHE LINE REPLACEMENT MONITORING AND PROFILING - Systems and methods for cache replacement monitoring (CRM) are provided. The system includes a monitored cache comprising a monitored cache line set, the monitored cache line set comprising at least one cache line capable of holding data of a monitored address; and a CRM mechanism operatively associated with the monitored cache. The CRM mechanism collects CRM information for the monitored address. The method includes the steps of collecting CRM information for a monitored address in a monitored cache; and recording the CRM information for the monitored address, when at least one of (1) the monitored address is cached in the monitored cache, (2) the monitored address is replaced in the monitored cache, (3) any cache line in a cache line set corresponding to the monitored address is cached in the monitored cache, and (4) any cache line in a cache line set corresponding to the monitored address is replaced in the monitored cache. | 04-02-2009 |
20140019811 | COMPUTER SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MARKERS - Identifying computer system markers to understand computer system performance, in one aspect, may comprise identifying a set of executions of applications indicative of computer performance based on first values associated with a first set of artifacts in the set of executions. Two subsets of executions from said identified set of executions are selected based on second values associated with a second set of artifacts in the set of executions. One or more markers are identified by determining one or more third set of artifacts from the two subsets of executions that have an associated third value that is different in a first of the two subsets from a second of the two subsets of executions according to a criterion. | 01-16-2014 |
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20140217164 | System and method for downloading a live performance through use of a QR code - A system and method for downloading a live performance held at a venue using a QR code comprising a server, including a memory, processor, and content management system, and a computer, including a memory, processor, scanner, and software. The content management system is stored in the memory and adapted to run on the processor of the server, and is adapted to provide a website, transmit a corresponding link to the computer, receive information from the computer relating to a QR code, and transmit data to the computer through the internet. The software is stored in the memory and adapted to run on the processor of the computer, and is adapted to scan a QR code, associate it with a link for a live performance download, communicate, through the internet, with the content management system, receive, from the content management system, data pertaining to the download; and download the live performance. | 08-07-2014 |
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20090283720 | Nano-composite IR window and method for making same - A transparent, nano-composite material and methods for making structures from this material are provided. In one embodiment, the material is made from a polycrystalline matrix containing dispersed particles of a harder material. The particles are less then about 100 nm. In other embodiments, methods for making structures from the material are provided. In one aspect, the methods include blending precursor powders for the matrix and reinforcing phases prior to forming and sintering to make a final structure. In other aspects, a precursor powder for the matrix is pressed into a green shape, which is partially sintered and exposed to a solution containing a precursor for the reinforcing phase, prior to be sintered into the final material. In another aspect, the precursor powder for the matrix is coated with a sol-gel precursor for the reinforcing material, then pressed into a green shape and sintered to form the final structure. | 11-19-2009 |
20100027105 | ROBUST WINDOW FOR INFRARED ENERGY - Articles transparent to infrared radiation and resistant to impact and wear are provided. In one embodiment the article comprises a substrate and a composite coating disposed over the substrate and extending from an interface with the substrate to an external surface. The coating and the substrate are capable of transmitting infrared radiation. The composite coating comprises a first phase and a second phase, where the second phase has a higher resistance to erosive wear than the first phase. The coating comprises a compositional gradient proceeding from a first composition at the interface of the coating with the substrate to a second composition at the external surface, the first composition comprising a higher concentration of the first phase than that of the second composition. The first phase has at least one property selected from the group consisting of a) a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) that is within about plus or minus 3 parts per million per degree centigrade of a CTE of the substrate, and b) an index of refraction that is within a range from as high as about 0.1 plus the index of refraction of the substrate to as low as about the square root of the index of refraction of the substrate. | 02-04-2010 |
20100111803 | HIGH STRENGTH, FINE GRAINED SPINEL FOR WINDOW APPLICATIONS, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a spinel article. The article comprises a spinel material, wherein the spinel material has a monomodal grain size distribution with average grain sizes of less than or equal to about 15 micrometers, and a biaxial flexural strength of greater than or equal to about 300 megapascals when measured by a ring-on-ring flexural test as per ASTM Standard C1499-08. Disclosed herein too is a spinel article manufactured by a method comprising calcining a spinel powder; milling the powder in a milling medium; granulating the powder; screening the powder to a mesh size of about 40 to about 200 mesh; pressing the powder to form an article; burning out organics from the article; sintering the article; and hot isostatically pressing the article. | 05-06-2010 |
20130234374 | HIGH STRENGTH, FINE GRAINED SPINEL FOR WINDOW APPLICATIONS, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a spinel article. The article includes a spinel material, wherein the spinel material has a monomodal grain size distribution with average grain sizes of less than or equal to about 15 micrometers, and a biaxial flexural strength of greater than or equal to about 300 megapascals when measured by a ring-on-ring flexural test as per ASTM Standard C1499-08. Disclosed herein too is a method for manufacturing a spinel article, including calcining a spinel powder; milling the powder in a milling medium; granulating the powder; screening the powder to a mesh size of about 40 to about 200 mesh; pressing the powder to form an article; burning out organics from the article; sintering the article; and hot isostatically pressing the article. | 09-12-2013 |