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20100311417 | METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE, COST AND CONSTELLATION DESIGN OF SATELLITES FOR FULL AND PARTIAL EARTH COVERAGE - A system and method for highly efficient constellations of satellites which give single, double, . . . k-fold redundant full earth imaging coverage, or k-fold coverage for latitudes greater than any selected latitude is given for remote sensing instruments in short periods of time, i.e., continuous coverage, as a function of the parameters of the satellite and the remote sensing instrument for many different types of orbits. A high data rate satellite communication system and method for use with small, mobile cell phone receiving and transmitting stations is also provided. Satellite instrument performance models, full and partial satellite constellation models, and satellite cost models are disclosed and used to optimize the design of satellite systems with vastly improved performance and lower cost over current major satellite systems. | 12-09-2010 |
20120273621 | METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE, COST AND CONSTELLATION DESIGN OF SATELLITES FOR FULL AND PARTIAL EARTH COVERAGE - A system and method for highly efficient constellations of satellites which give single, double, . . . k-fold redundant full earth imaging coverage, or k-fold coverage for latitudes greater than any selected latitude is given for remote sensing instruments in short periods of time, i.e., continuous coverage, as a function of the parameters of the satellite and the remote sensing instrument for many different types of orbits. A high data rate satellite communication system and method for use with small, mobile cell phone receiving and transmitting stations is also provided. Satellite instrument performance models, full and partial satellite constellation models, and satellite cost models are disclosed and used to optimize the design of satellite systems with vastly improved performance and lower cost over current major satellite systems. | 11-01-2012 |
20120276898 | METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE, COST AND CONSTELLATION DESIGN OF SATELLITES FOR FULL AND PARTIAL EARTH COVERAGE - A system and method for highly efficient constellations of satellites which give single, double, . . . k-fold redundant full earth imaging coverage, or k-fold coverage for latitudes greater than any selected latitude is given for remote sensing instruments in short periods of time, i.e., continuous coverage, as a function of the parameters of the satellite and the remote sensing instrument for many different types of orbits. A high data rate satellite communication system and method for use with small, mobile cell phone receiving and transmitting stations is also provided. Satellite instrument performance models, full and partial satellite constellation models, and satellite cost models are disclosed and used to optimize the design of satellite systems with vastly improved performance and lower cost over current major satellite systems. | 11-01-2012 |
20150371431 | METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND COMPRESSING MULTIPLE IMAGES - A multi-temporal, multi-angle, automated target exploitation method is provided for processing a large number of images. The system geo-rectifies the images to a three-dimensional surface topography, co-registers groups of the images with fractional pixel accuracy, automates change detection, evaluates the significance of change between the images, and massively compresses imagery sets based on the statistical significance of change. The method improves the resolution, accuracy, and quality of information extracted beyond the capabilities of any single image, and creates registered six-dimensional image datasets appropriate for mathematical treatment using standard multi-variable analysis techniques from vector calculus and linear algebra such as time-series analysis and eigenvector decomposition. | 12-24-2015 |
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20100311417 | METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE, COST AND CONSTELLATION DESIGN OF SATELLITES FOR FULL AND PARTIAL EARTH COVERAGE - A system and method for highly efficient constellations of satellites which give single, double, . . . k-fold redundant full earth imaging coverage, or k-fold coverage for latitudes greater than any selected latitude is given for remote sensing instruments in short periods of time, i.e., continuous coverage, as a function of the parameters of the satellite and the remote sensing instrument for many different types of orbits. A high data rate satellite communication system and method for use with small, mobile cell phone receiving and transmitting stations is also provided. Satellite instrument performance models, full and partial satellite constellation models, and satellite cost models are disclosed and used to optimize the design of satellite systems with vastly improved performance and lower cost over current major satellite systems. | 12-09-2010 |
20120273621 | METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE, COST AND CONSTELLATION DESIGN OF SATELLITES FOR FULL AND PARTIAL EARTH COVERAGE - A system and method for highly efficient constellations of satellites which give single, double, . . . k-fold redundant full earth imaging coverage, or k-fold coverage for latitudes greater than any selected latitude is given for remote sensing instruments in short periods of time, i.e., continuous coverage, as a function of the parameters of the satellite and the remote sensing instrument for many different types of orbits. A high data rate satellite communication system and method for use with small, mobile cell phone receiving and transmitting stations is also provided. Satellite instrument performance models, full and partial satellite constellation models, and satellite cost models are disclosed and used to optimize the design of satellite systems with vastly improved performance and lower cost over current major satellite systems. | 11-01-2012 |
20120276898 | METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE, COST AND CONSTELLATION DESIGN OF SATELLITES FOR FULL AND PARTIAL EARTH COVERAGE - A system and method for highly efficient constellations of satellites which give single, double, . . . k-fold redundant full earth imaging coverage, or k-fold coverage for latitudes greater than any selected latitude is given for remote sensing instruments in short periods of time, i.e., continuous coverage, as a function of the parameters of the satellite and the remote sensing instrument for many different types of orbits. A high data rate satellite communication system and method for use with small, mobile cell phone receiving and transmitting stations is also provided. Satellite instrument performance models, full and partial satellite constellation models, and satellite cost models are disclosed and used to optimize the design of satellite systems with vastly improved performance and lower cost over current major satellite systems. | 11-01-2012 |
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20090120353 | REDUCTION OF AIR POCKETS IN SILICON CRYSTALS BY AVOIDING THE INTRODUCTION OF NEARLY-INSOLUBLE GASES INTO THE MELT - A process is provided for controlling the amount of insoluble gas carried by a charge of granular polycrystalline silicon. The process comprises (i) charging a feeding container with granular polycrystalline silicon, (ii) forming an ambient atmosphere in the feeding container, the ambient atmosphere having a mole fraction of at least 0.9 of a gas having a solubility in molten silicon of at least about 5—10 | 05-14-2009 |
20090320743 | Controlling a Melt-Solid Interface Shape of a Growing Silicon Crystal Using an Unbalanced Magnetic Field and Iso-Rotation - A system for growing silicon crystals that facilitates controlling a shape of a melt-solid interface is described. The crystal growing system includes a heated crucible including a semiconductor melt from which a monocrystalline ingot is grown according to a Czochralski process. The ingot is grown on a seed crystal pulled from the melt. The method includes applying an unbalanced cusped magnetic field to the melt, and rotating the ingot and the crucible in the same direction while the ingot is being pulled from the melt. | 12-31-2009 |
20100031870 | GENERATING A PUMPING FORCE IN A SILICON MELT BY APPLYING A TIME-VARYING MAGNETIC FIELD - Controlling crystal growth in a crystal growing system is described. The crystal growing system includes a heated crucible including a semiconductor melt from which a monocrystalline ingot is grown according to a Czochralski and the ingot is grown on a seed crystal pulled from the melt. The method includes applying a cusped magnetic field to the melt by supplying an upper coil with a first direct current (I | 02-11-2010 |
20130125587 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING CRUCIBLES WITH A REDUCED AMOUNT OF BUBBLES - Methods for producing crucibles for holding molten material that contain a reduced amount of gas pockets are disclosed. The methods may involve use of molten silica that may be outgassed prior to or during formation of the crucible. Crucibles produced from such methods and ingots and wafers that are produced from crucibles with a reduced amount of gas pockets are also disclosed. | 05-23-2013 |
20130125719 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING SILICON INGOTS - Methods for producing crucibles for holding molten material that contain a reduced amount of gas pockets are disclosed. The methods may involve use of molten silica that may be outgassed prior to or during formation of the crucible. Crucibles produced from such methods and ingots and wafers that are produced from crucibles with a reduced amount of gas pockets are also disclosed. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129921 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING CRUCIBLES WITH A REDUCED AMOUNT OF BUBBLES - Methods for producing crucibles for holding molten material that contain a reduced amount of gas pockets are disclosed. The methods may involve use of molten silica that may be outgassed prior to or during formation of the crucible. Crucibles produced from such methods and ingots and wafers that are produced from crucibles with a reduced amount of gas pockets are also disclosed. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129973 | CRUCIBLES WITH A REDUCED AMOUNT OF BUBBLES AND INGOTS AND WAFERS PRODUCED BY USE OF SUCH CRUCIBLES - Methods for producing crucibles for holding molten material that contain a reduced amount of gas pockets are disclosed. The methods may involve use of molten silica that may be outgassed prior to or during formation of the crucible. Crucibles produced from such methods and ingots and wafers that are produced from crucibles with a reduced amount of gas pockets are also disclosed. | 05-23-2013 |
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20090327430 | DETERMINING EMAIL FILTERING TYPE BASED ON SENDER CLASSIFICATION - Determining email filtering type based on sender classification. Incoming email is accessed and a sender of the incoming email is identified. The reputation of the sender of the incoming email is determined. An email sender classification is made based on the reputation of the sender. A determination of the type of filtering operations to be performed by an email filter on the email is made based on the classification. The parameters of the type of filtering operations to be performed are determined. The parameters of the type of filtering operations to be performed are provided to the email filter. | 12-31-2009 |
20130018964 | MESSAGE CATEGORIZATIONAANM Osipkov; IvanAACI BellevueAAST WAAACO USAAGP Osipkov; Ivan Bellevue WA USAANM Jiang; WeiAACI RedmondAAST WAAACO USAAGP Jiang; Wei Redmond WA USAANM Davis; Malcolm HollisAACI KirklandAAST WAAACO USAAGP Davis; Malcolm Hollis Kirkland WA USAANM Hines; DouglasAACI KenmoreAAST WAAACO USAAGP Hines; Douglas Kenmore WA USAANM Korb; JoshuaAACI IssaquahAAST WAAACO USAAGP Korb; Joshua Issaquah WA US - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for defining a message behavior profile for a sender, which may be used to categorize messages from the sender. A message behavior profile may be defined based upon, for example, message distribution behavior of the sender (e.g., volume, frequency, variance in content amongst messages sent to recipients, etc.); recipient interactions with messages from the sender (e.g., message read rates, message response rates, etc.); unsubscription options comprised within messages from the sender; and/or other factors. In this way, the message behavior profile and/or features extracted from a message may be used to categorize a message from the sender (e.g., newsletter, commercial advertisements, alert, social network etc.). Categorized messages may be organized into folders, displayed or hidden within views, and/or processed based upon their respective categorizations. | 01-17-2013 |
20150326521 | MESSAGE CATEGORIZATION - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for defining a message behavior profile for a sender, which may be used to categorize messages from the sender. A message behavior profile may be defined based upon, for example, message distribution behavior of the sender (e.g., volume, frequency, variance in content amongst messages sent to recipients, etc.); recipient interactions with messages from the sender (e.g., message read rates, message response rates, etc.); unsubscription options comprised within messages from the sender; and/or other factors. In this way, the message behavior profile and/or features extracted from a message may be used to categorize a message from the sender (e.g., newsletter, commercial advertisements, alert, social network etc.). Categorized messages may be organized into folders, displayed or hidden within views, and/or processed based upon their respective categorizations. | 11-12-2015 |
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20120061468 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSACTIONAL BALLOT PROCESSING, AND BALLOT AUDITING - A voting unit and a ballot transaction processing system for processing a voting session. The voting unit includes an optical ballot scanner and a printer that is capable of printing a non-human readable barcode on ballots that are fed into the voting unit. The ballots are filled out (or cast) by the voter before being inserted into the voting unit. The voter can confirm the voting unit's interpretations of his/her selections on the scanned ballot via a display and confirm that the interpretations are correct via an input section on the voting unit. The ballot transaction processing system is also capable of generating, assigning and communicating to a plurality of voting units a set of unique transaction codes. In so doing, the ballot transaction processing system maintains voter secrecy, prevents ballot stuffing and provides a one-to-one correspondence between images of optically scanned ballots and the ballots themselves. | 03-15-2012 |
20120111940 | BALLOT IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOTING MACHINES - A ballot processing system and method processes paper ballots, such as by optically scanning or optically reading those ballots. The ballot image processing system corrects for, or is able to differentiate valid voting marks from, ballot printing errors such as skewed printing, incorrect sizing, and speckling. Further, the ballot image processing system, after determining whether each of the voting marks is valid or not, associates audit data with the ballot that corresponds to the decision regarding each voting mark. | 05-10-2012 |
20120145784 | BALLOT LEVEL SECURITY FEATURES FOR OPTICAL SCAN VOTING MACHINE CAPABLE OF BALLOT IMAGE PROCESSING, SECURE BALLOT PRINTING, AND BALLOT LAYOUT AUTHENTICATION AND VERIFICATION - A ballot authentication system uses a plurality of security features embedded in and/or printed on the paper stock used to print a ballot on which election-choice-information is printed and a voting unit that includes at least a scanner that is configured to detect the plurality of security features that are embedded in and/or printed on the ballot and authenticate the ballot based on the read information. The voting unit of the ballot authentication system can be configured to verify and confirm that the various security features embedded in and/or printed on the ballot is correct for a particular precinct of an election. The security features of the ballot authentication system can include static, dynamic and data security features. | 06-14-2012 |
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20110170965 | HOLE CUTTER WITH EXTRUDED CAP - A hole cutter having an extruded plate cap and methods and apparatuses for making such caps and hole cutters. The plate cap has planar opposing external and internal surfaces with an extruded hub extending axially inwardly from the internal surface. An aperture extends axially through the hub from the external surface. At least a portion of the aperture can be threaded for threaded engagement with a driving arbor. The hub is long enough so that the threaded portion contains at least two full threads. A blade body with a cutting edge is attached to the cap to form a hole cutter. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170970 | Hole Cutter With Minimum Tooth Pitch to Blade Body Thickness Ratio - A hole cutter for cutting a work piece, such as a wood and/or metal work piece, has a substantially cylindrical blade body defining a wall thickness within the range of about 0.032 inch to about 0.038 inch, and a cutting edge formed on one end of the blade body including a plurality of teeth defining an average tooth pitch within the range of about 3.5 TPI to about 5.5 TPI for cutting the work piece and forming chips therefrom. The substantially cylindrical blade body and cutting edge define an average tooth pitch to blade body thickness ratio of at least about 110. | 07-14-2011 |
20110271815 | SAW BLADE WITH ROBUST TOOTH FORM - A recip saw blade has a blade body and a cutting edge extending along the blade body and defined by a repeating pattern of two consecutive teeth. Each of the two consecutive teeth includes a primary clearance surface defining a relatively steep primary clearance angle, a secondary clearance surface defining a relatively shallow secondary clearance angle, a tip, a rake face located on the opposite side of the tip relative to the primary clearance surface, a gullet defining a depth, a first gullet radius located on an opposite side of the gullet relative to the rake face, and a second gullet radius located between the gullet and the rake face, wherein the depth of the gullet is greater than the second gullet radius. | 11-10-2011 |
20120000338 | SAW BLADE TOOTH FORM FOR ABUSIVE CUTTING APPLICATIONS - A recip saw blade has a blade body and a cutting edge extending along the blade body and defined by a repeating pattern of two consecutive teeth suitable for abusive cutting applications. The blade defines a relatively coarse tooth pitch. The two consecutive teeth, which may be bi-metal, include a high tooth and a relatively low tooth in comparison to the high tooth. Each high tooth and low tooth include a primary clearance surface defining a relatively shallow primary clearance angle that is about 28° or less, and a secondary clearance surface defining a relatively steep secondary clearance angle in comparison to the primary clearance angle. The primary clearance angle of the high tooth is steeper than the primary clearance angle of the low tooth, such as between about 23° and 28°, and the secondary clearance angle of the high tooth is shallower than the secondary clearance angle of the low tooth. | 01-05-2012 |
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20140260880 | RECIPROCATING SAW BLADE WITH CURVED CUTTING EDGE - A reciprocating saw blade that includes an elongated blade body defining an inner end and a distal end, a cutting edge located on one side of the blade body and extending between the inner and distal ends thereof and a tang located at the inner end of the blade body. The tang projects from the blade body at an acute angle of at least about 3° relative to a line tangent to an inner end of the cutting edge. The cutting edge includes a portion defining a substantially curved contour and optionally can include at least one further portion defining a non-curved contour. | 09-18-2014 |
20140260882 | SAW BLADE WITH FEED LIMITER - A saw blade comprising cutting teeth, having at least one of chip-limiters protruding from the teeth or secondary teeth in the gullets of the cutting teeth configured to mitigate the blade from over-feeding. The chip limiters and/or secondary teeth provide that only a limited portion of an object that the saw blade encounters during cutting falls below the cutting tips of the cutting teeth. The chip limiters and/or secondary teeth also assist the cutting teeth in cutting. | 09-18-2014 |
20150016910 | HOLE CUTTER - A hole cutter has a substantially cylindrical blade body that defines an interior surface and an exterior surface that is located on an opposite side of the blade body relative to the interior surface. A cutting edge is located at one end of the blade body that generates swarf in cutting the work piece. A pattern is formed on the exterior and/or interior surfaces of the blade body. The pattern is configured to direct swarf generated at the cutting edge through the path and away from the cutting edge. | 01-15-2015 |
20150075013 | RECIP BLADE WITH RIB, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A recip blade includes a blade body, a tang, a distal end, a cutting edge, and a rib. The tang is located an end of the blade body. The distal end is located at an opposite end of the blade body relative to the tang. The cutting edge extends in a lengthwise direction at least substantially between the tang and the distal end. The rib extends along at least a portion of the blade body. The rib and the cutting edge are spaced from one another by a heightwise-extending distance. A method includes: (i) providing a recip blade including the blade body, the tang, the distal end, and the cutting edge; (ii) forming the rib by increasing a widthwise-extending thickness of the blade body at the rib in comparison to a widthwise-extending thickness of the blade body at an adjacent portion of the blade body. | 03-19-2015 |