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20110131633 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERMISSIONING REMOTE FILE ACCESS VIA PERMISSIONED LINKS - Permissioned links for a novel method of credentialing users and assigning permissions to the user using the link to access repositories holding or intended to hold digital files. The permissioned links comprise a unique identifier that can be correlated to a specific repository of digital files and permission set. Users using the permissioned links for access need not enter a login or password. Moreover, permissioned links are portable, allowing multiple users to access the repository of digital files using the same permissioned link. | 06-02-2011 |
20120209892 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO AGGREGATION OF DISPARATE DATABASE CONTENT - Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for sharing disparate galleries of files among a plurality of users without duplicating the files in a file storage device. The systems, devices, and methods of this disclosure are effective with photograph files, music files, video files, word processing files, and other types of files that are organized into galleries or sub-galleries. | 08-16-2012 |
20130207994 | System and method for generating and applying a color theme to a user interface - A method for applying a color scheme to a user interface that includes one or more user interface (UI) elements. The method includes receiving a selection of a first color, generating a first portion of a color palette that includes the first color and one or more colors that sequentially transition from the first color to a first termination color, and assigning a color from the color palette to a UI element included in the user interface, wherein the color from the color palette corresponds to a position in the color palette associated with the UI element. | 08-15-2013 |
20140258841 | METHOD OF BUILDING A CUSTOMIZABLE WEBSITE - The present invention generally relates to a method of building a customizable website. A website builder, a template comprising a plurality of content areas, and a plurality of content widgets are provided. The method also comprises receiving input selecting one or more content areas, receiving input selecting one or more content widgets, and receiving input of a selected content area for placement of the selected one or more content widgets. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258842 | METHOD OF DESIGNING A CUSTOMIZABLE WEBSITE - Embodiments described herein relate to designing a customizable website by using a custom design application. The custom design application generally provides a site master template, a homepage template, a plurality of sub templates, and a 404 error template. The templates may be customized with input provided by a user. The method also provides a manner of customizing a website by utilizing a hierarchical relationship between the templates in order to easily and efficiently custom design a website. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258886 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING A FILE FROM A DEVICE - Embodiments described herein generally relate to methods for transferring a file from a device to other storage/display locations. As the device displays a file, the file may be transferred to one or more destinations by detecting a gesture on the display screen. Alternatively, a plurality of destinations may be displayed for a user's selection after detecting the gesture on the display screen. As the user selects a destination, the displayed file is transferred to the selected destination. | 09-11-2014 |
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20120075490 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING POSITIONING OF OBJECTS WITHIN A SCENE IN VIDEO CONTENT - Methods and systems for determining positioning of objects of interest within a scene in video content are disclosed. One method includes applying position detection tags to one or more physical objects in a scene to be captured as video content, and capturing video content including the scene containing the one or more physical objects such that positions of the physical objects are known. The method also includes detecting the one or more objects within a recorded scene of the video content, and identifying one or more objects of interest in the recorded scene corresponding to the objects at least in part by extrapolating from the known physical positions of the objects in the scene. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078626 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING SPEECH IN MULTIMEDIA CONTENT TO TEXT - Methods and systems for converting speech to text are disclosed. One method includes analyzing multimedia content to determine the presence of closed captioning data. The method includes, upon detecting closed captioning data, indexing the closed captioning data as associated with the multimedia content. The method also includes, upon failure to detect closed captioning data in the multimedia content, extracting audio data from multimedia content, the audio data including speech data, performing a plurality of speech to text conversions on the speech data to create a plurality of transcripts of the speech data, selecting text from one or more of the plurality of transcripts to form an amalgamated transcript, and indexing the amalgamated transcript as associated with the multimedia content. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078691 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT EDITING AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS - Methods and systems for managing content are described. One system includes a multimedia management frontend accessible to providers of multimedia content. The multimedia management frontend operates on one or more computing systems and is configured to receive multimedia content from a provider and expose multimedia content editing tools to the provider, the tools including a user interface configured to display information related to the multimedia content and receive from the provider provider-selected preferences as well as identification of one or more objects of interest in the multimedia content. The system also includes a scheduler configured to receive the multimedia content from the multimedia frontend. The system further includes a plurality of computing systems communicatively interconnected to the scheduler, the plurality of computing systems configured to receive multimedia content from the scheduler and generate metadata associated with the multimedia content based on the provider-selected preferences received at the multimedia frontend. | 03-29-2012 |
20120079380 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING INTERACTIVE FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - Methods and systems for managing interactive features associated with multimedia content are disclosed. One method includes applying a container to multimedia content using one or more computing systems, the container defining an interface through which metadata external to the multimedia content is linked with one or more portions of the multimedia content. The method further includes receiving a request for the multimedia content from a content consumer. The method also includes associating a set of metadata describing one or more interactive features with the multimedia content, the set of metadata linked to at least a portion of the multimedia content via the container and selected from a database including metadata defining interactive features capable of being associated with the multimedia content. The method also includes, upon receiving a request for playback of the multimedia content, providing the multimedia content and the one or more interactive features to the content consumer. | 03-29-2012 |
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20100161715 | JAVA ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A Java enterprise resource management (JERM) system and method are provided that allow both timing metrics and call metrics to be monitored and gathered in real-time, and which can cause appropriate actions to be taken in real-time. The JERM system provides a level of granularity with respect to the monitoring of methods triggered during a transaction that is equivalent to or better than that which is currently provided in the aforementioned known call-analysis resource management systems. In addition, the JERM system also provides information associated with the timing of hops that occur between servers, and between and within applications, during a transaction. Because all of this information is obtained in real-time, the JERM system is able to respond in real-time to cause resources to be scaled in or scaled out in a way that provides improved efficiency and productivity, and that enables the enterprise to quickly recover from resource failures. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161719 | JAVA Enterprise Resource Management System and Method - A Java enterprise resource management (JERM) system and method are provided that allow both timing metrics and call metrics to be monitored and gathered in real-time, and which can cause appropriate actions to be taken in real-time. The JERM system provides a level of granularity with respect to the monitoring of methods triggered during a transaction that is equivalent to or better than that which is currently provided in the aforementioned known call-analysis resource management systems. In addition, the JERM system also provides information associated with the timing of hops that occur between servers, and between and within applications, during a transaction. Because all of this information is obtained in real-time, the JERM system is able to respond in real-time to cause resources to be scaled in or scaled out in a way that provides improved efficiency and productivity, and that enables the enterprise to quickly recover from resource failures. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161803 | Java Enterprise Resource Management System and Method - A Java enterprise resource management (JERM) system and method are provided that allow both timing metrics and call metrics to be monitored and gathered in real-time, and which can cause appropriate actions to be taken in real-time. The JERM system provides a level of granularity with respect to the monitoring of methods triggered during a transaction that is equivalent to or better than that which is currently provided in the aforementioned known call-analysis resource management systems. In addition, the JERM system also provides information associated with the timing of hops that occur between servers, and between and within applications, during a transaction. Because all of this information is obtained in real-time, the JERM system is able to respond in real-time to cause resources to be scaled in or scaled out in a way that provides improved efficiency and productivity, and that enables the enterprise to quickly recover from resource failures. | 06-24-2010 |
20100162244 | COMPUTER WORK CHAIN AND A METHOD FOR PERFORMING A WORK CHAIN IN A COMPUTER - A computerized work chain and methods are provided. The work chain comprises at least one processing device configured to perform the computerized work chain M work queues implemented in the one or more processing devices, and a work queue handler implemented in the one or more processing devices, where M is a positive integer that is greater than or equal to one. Each work queue comprises a queue monitor, an exception monitor, a pool of worker threads, a logger, and a data queue. The work queue handler forms the work chain by linking the M work queues together such that respective outputs of a first one of the work queues through an M | 06-24-2010 |
20100169408 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING A WORK CHAIN IN A JAVA ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A Java enterprise resource management (JERM) system and methods that implement a work chain are provided that allow both timing metrics and call metrics to be monitored and gathered in real-time, and which can cause appropriate actions to be taken in real-time. The JERM system provides a level of granularity with respect to the monitoring of methods triggered during a transaction that is equivalent to or better than that which is currently provided in the aforementioned known call-analysis resource management systems. In addition, the JERM system also provides information associated with the timing of hops that occur between servers, and between and within applications, during a transaction. Because all of this information is obtained in real-time, the JERM system is able to respond in real-time to cause resources to be scaled in or scaled out in a way that provides improved efficiency and productivity, and that enables the enterprise to quickly recover from resource failures. | 07-01-2010 |
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20120147449 | SPACERS FOR INSULATED GLASS UNITS - This disclosure provides spacers for smart windows. In one aspect, a window assembly includes a first substantially transparent substrate having an optically switchable device on a surface of the first substrate. The optically switchable device includes electrodes. A first electrode of the electrodes has a length about the length of a side of the optically switchable device. The window assembly further includes a second substantially transparent substrate a metal spacer between the first and the second substrates. The metal spacer has a substantially rectangular cross section, with one side of the metal spacer including a recess configured to accommodate the length of the first electrode such that there is no contact between the first electrode and the metal spacer. A primary seal material bonds the first substrate to the metal spacer and bonds the second substrate to the metal spacer. | 06-14-2012 |
20140192393 | SPACERS FOR INSULATED GLASS UNITS - This disclosure provides spacers for smart windows. In one aspect, a window assembly includes a first substantially transparent substrate having an optically switchable device on a surface of the first substrate. The optically switchable device includes electrodes. A first electrode of the electrodes has a length about the length of a side of the optically switchable device. The window assembly further includes a second substantially transparent substrate a metal spacer between the first and the second substrates. The metal spacer has a substantially rectangular cross section, with one side of the metal spacer including a recess configured to accommodate the length of the first electrode such that there is no contact between the first electrode and the metal spacer. A primary seal material bonds the first substrate to the metal spacer and bonds the second substrate to the metal spacer. | 07-10-2014 |
20140340731 | THIN-FILM DEVICES AND FABRICATION - Thin-film devices, for example electrochromic devices for windows, and methods of manufacturing are described. Particular focus is given to methods of patterning optical devices. Various edge deletion and isolation scribes are performed, for example, to ensure the optical device has appropriate isolation from any edge defects. Methods described herein apply to any thin-film device having one or more material layers sandwiched between two thin film electrical conductor layers. The described methods create novel optical device configurations. | 11-20-2014 |
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20120167270 | FOOTWEAR HAVING AIR-CONTROLLED ACTIVE ELEMENT - A clothing article for a foot including a sole including a sealed collapsible air cavity having disposed therein a return support for expanding a collapsed air cavity wherein the air cavity includes an outlet permitting a quantity of air to exit when the air cavity is collapsed; an upper, coupled to the sole, for covering a portion of the foot; an air-actuated active element coupled to the upper, the active element including a first mode and a second mode, the active element biased to the first mode and responsive to the quantity of air to transition from the first mode to the second mode; and a communication channel, coupled to the outlet and to the active element, for transferring the quantity of air from the air cavity to the active element. | 07-05-2012 |
20130074484 | FOOTWEAR HAVING AIR-CONTROLLED ACTIVE ELEMENT - A clothing article for a foot including a sole including a sealed collapsible air cavity having disposed therein a return support for expanding a collapsed air cavity wherein the air cavity includes an outlet permitting a quantity of air to exit when the air cavity is collapsed; an upper, coupled to the sole, for covering a portion of the foot; an air-actuated active element coupled to the upper, the active element including a first mode and a second mode, the active element biased to the first mode and responsive to the quantity of air to transition from the first mode to the second mode; and a communication channel, coupled to the outlet and to the active element, for transferring the quantity of air from the air cavity to the active element. | 03-28-2013 |
20130081191 | FOOTWEAR HAVING AIR-CONTROLLED ACTIVE ELEMENT - A clothing article for a foot including a sole including a sealed collapsible air cavity having disposed therein a return support for expanding a collapsed air cavity wherein the air cavity includes an outlet permitting a quantity of air to exit when the air cavity is collapsed; an upper, coupled to the sole, for covering a portion of the foot; an air-actuated active element coupled to the upper, the active element including a first mode and a second mode, the active element biased to the first mode and responsive to the quantity of air to transition from the first mode to the second mode; and a communication channel, coupled to the outlet and to the active element, for transferring the quantity of air from the air cavity to the active element. | 04-04-2013 |
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20080244108 | PER-PORT UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS DISABLE - A device and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a register to store a universal serial bus (USB) port disable bit for an individual USB port. The device also includes a USB individual port disable unit that is capable of reading the USB port disable bit and disabling the individual USB port when the bit is set. | 10-02-2008 |
20110161298 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPPORTUNISTIC RE-IMAGING USING CANNIBALISTIC STORAGE TECHNIQUES ON SPARSE STORAGE DEVICES - In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method for instant re-imaging of a computing device using a sparse storage partition of dynamically variable size to hold re-imaging data. An embodiment uses a solid state storage device to hold the binary image, or re-imaging personality. An embodiment uses copy on write methodology to maintain the re-imaging personality. An embodiment allows the primary, or active, personality to cannibalize storage used for a re-imaging personality when additional storage is required. The state of a computing device may be switched to allow or prohibit re-imaging, or to prohibit cannibalization of storage. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-30-2011 |
20110246756 | PROTOCOL FOR AUTHENTICATING FUNCTIONALITY IN A PERIPHERAL DEVICE - A protocol provides authentication of peripheral devices by a computing device to which the peripheral device connects. Computing devices include a verifier with a public key that authenticates multiple associated private keys. Private keys are embedded on peripheral devices. When the verifier is able to authenticate a connected peripheral, particular functionality is enabled that may not be enabled for peripherals that do not authenticate. | 10-06-2011 |
20110252227 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO BIND A DEVICE TO A COMPUTER SYSTEM - Methods and systems to bind a computer device to one or more computer systems, such that only an authorized computer system may access a protected portion of the device. A processor within the computer system may provide a proxy environment to interface between the device and a trusted environment of the computer system, such as a management environment that is secure from the proxy environment. The device may be configured to authenticate the trusted environment through the proxy environment, and to verify integrity of messages exchanged with the trusted environment through the proxy environment. Authentication may include a SSL and/or TSL handshake protocol. The device may be configured to authenticate a certificate, such as an X.509 certificate, a certificate chain, and/or a hash thereof. The device may include computer memory, a printer, display, circuit board, keyboard, mouse, pointing device, and/or other physical device. | 10-13-2011 |
20120117348 | TECHNIQUES FOR SECURITY MANAGEMENT PROVISIONING AT A DATA STORAGE DEVICE - Techniques for a data storage device to locally implement security management functionality. In an embodiment, a security management process of the data storage device is to determine whether an access to non-volatile media of the data storage device is authorized. In certain embodiments, the data storage device is to restrict access to a secure region of the non-volatile storage media, the secure region to store information used and/or generated by a security management process of the data storage device. | 05-10-2012 |
20140032907 | PROTOCOL FOR AUTHENTICATING FUNCTIONALITY IN A PERIPHERAL DEVICE - A protocol provides authentication of peripheral devices by a computing device to which the peripheral device connects. Computing devices include a verifier with a public key that authenticates multiple associated private keys. Private keys are embedded on peripheral devices. When the verifier is able to authenticate a connected peripheral, particular functionality is enabled that may not be enabled for peripherals that do not authenticate. | 01-30-2014 |
20140068281 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING EFFICENT OPERATIONS PATHS FOR STORAGE DEVICES IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS - A mechanism is described for facilitating efficient operations paths for storage devices in computing systems according to one embodiment of the invention. A method of embodiments of the invention includes identifying a request for power mode change at a storage device at a computing system. The request for power mode change indicates potential reduced power state of the storage device. The method may further include transferring context information at the storage device to a host memory at the computing system, in response to the first command, and saving the context information at the host memory, wherein the storage device is at reduced power state. | 03-06-2014 |
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20140312247 | FLUORESCENCE IMAGER ON A MOBILE DEVICE - Systems and methods for substantially simultaneously exciting a fluorescently labeled specimen and capturing fluorescent light emitted therefrom using a smartphone, tablet, or similar mobile computing device, are disclosed herein. The system includes a light-emitting diode (“LED”) light source coupled with the smartphone to excite the specimen and an imaging device coupled with the smartphone to capture fluorescent light emitted from the specimen. The system further includes a hood adapted to be coupled with the smartphone that has an excitation filter configured to produce a first wavelength of electromagnetic radiation to strike the specimen when light from the LED light source passes through it and an emission filter configured to receive the light emitted from the specimen and to produce a second wavelength of electromagnetic radiation to be captured by the imaging device. | 10-23-2014 |
20150044705 | PROTEIN DETECTION USING MODIFIED CYCLODEXTRINS - A method is provided for detecting a protein using a cyclodextrin covalently linked to at least one label. The cyclodextrin can associate with the protein by sequestering an aromatic amino acid side-chain of the protein in its hydrophobic cavity. After contacting the protein with the cyclodextrin, the label can be detected directly or can undergo a chemical interaction with a reagent to form a detectable product. The label can include an indole moiety, which can react with a halo-substituted organic compound upon exposure to UV light and thereby be rendered fluorescent. Alternatively, the label can include a biotin moiety, which can bind to a binding partner such as avidin, or variants thereof, to form a detectable molecular complex. A labeled cyclodextrin can be used in the present methods to detect a protein of interest in an electrophoresis gel or on a blotting membrane. Aromatic amino acid residues of the protein, in particular tryptophan, remain protected from chemical modification due to sequestration by the cyclodextrin, making these methods compatible with downstream applications that require intact protein. Also provided herein are compositions, kits, and electrophoresis gels for use in detecting proteins. | 02-12-2015 |
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20110297545 | INSTRUMENT FOR INDEPENDENT ELECTROTRANSFER IN MULTIPLE CASSETTES - Electrotransfer is performed in an instrument that receives electroblotting cassettes and that contains an integrated power supply, controls, and a display that allows the user to monitor and control each of a plurality of cassettes individually through electrical contacts within the housing that mate with corresponding electrical contacts on the cassettes. | 12-08-2011 |
20130143209 | PROCESSING OF ANALYTE SUPPORTS WITH OSCILLATING FLUID BY INTERRUPTED ROTATION - Analyte supports such as Western blots, gels, and the like is processed for purposes of detection and analysis, by placing the blot or gel on a plate and causing process fluids to oscillate across the blot or gel by intermittently rotating the plate. The plate can be inclined or flat, divided into sectors to accommodate multiple sheets, and multiple plates can be mounted to a single rotating shaft to process a large number of blots or gels simultaneously under the same protocol. | 06-06-2013 |
20130231462 | ANTI-IMMUNE COMPLEX ANTIBODIES - Provided are methods and compositions for immunoassays with improved sensitivity and specificity. The presently disclosed anti-immune complex antibodies stabilize the interaction between a primary and secondary antibody, thereby allowing for more stringent wash conditions, less background, and stronger signal. | 09-05-2013 |
20140027284 | TARGETED DELIVERY OF REAGENTS TO SPOTS ON A PLANAR SUPPORT THROUGH PATTERNED TRANSFER SHEETS - Molecular species that are immobilized in discrete locations on a planar support such as protein bands on a gel or a blotting membrane or species applied in dots or spots on a membrane are reacted with binding reagents that are applied through a porous hydrophilic transfer sheet placed over the planar support, the sheet having at least one region that is laterally bordered by a barrier with the binding reagent retained within the bordered region. The bordered region is placed directly over an area on the planar support where the molecular species are expected to reside if they are present on the support. The binding reagent is then delivered into the support to contact the species. Targeted delivery of the binding reagent is thus achieved with improved efficiency. | 01-30-2014 |
20140339084 | INSTRUMENT FOR INDEPENDENT ELECTROTRANSFER IN MULTIPLE CASSETTES - Electrotransfer is performed in an instrument that receives electroblotting cassettes and that contains an integrated power supply, controls, and a display that allows the user to monitor and control each of a plurality of cassettes individually through electrical contacts within the housing that mate with corresponding electrical contacts on the cassettes. | 11-20-2014 |
20150031145 | ENHANCED FUNCTIONALITY AND DELIVERY OF A PROTEIN FROM A POROUS SUBSTRATE - Compositions, methods, articles of manufacture, and kits are provided for storage and delivery of proteins. | 01-29-2015 |
20150153306 | MINI-GEL COMB - Molds for casting and retaining electrophoresis gel strips are provided, along with methods, kits, and systems for performing electrophoresis, electroelution, and/or electroblotting using these molds. | 06-04-2015 |
20150253251 | AUTOMATED BLOTTING USING SLIDING DEVICES - Devices, systems, methods, and kits are provided for performing separation, immobilization, blotting, and/or detection of analytes from biological samples. In some embodiments, the devices are constructed from two solid substrates with surfaces in contact. The devices include a plurality of channels formed from indentations in these surfaces. The indentations can be aligned with each other across the interface between the substrates, and realigned by shifting or sliding one substrate relative to the other. In some embodiments, the devices are constructed from three layers of a solid substrate. A separation channel in the middle layer of the device is first used for analyte separation. The middle layer can then be slid relative the top and/or bottom layer, thereby aligning the separation channel with a blotting membrane. Analytes can then be transferred to the membrane using electrodes in the top and bottom layers. | 09-10-2015 |
20150260681 | DIP-STICK WESTERN BLOT - Methods, kits, and systems are provided for separating, immobilizing, and/or detecting analytes of one or more samples using dipsticks. A ‘dipstick’ is an object that can be embedded and subsequently removed from a separation medium, and to which analytes can be immobilized while the object is embedded in the separation medium. Examples of separation media include an electrophoresis gel of any format and a stationary phase for column chromatography. Embodiments of the present methods include applying a sample to a separation medium; separating analytes of the sample in the separation medium along a separation axis; immobilizing the analytes on a dipstick embedded in the separation medium; removing the dipstick from the separation medium; and detecting the analytes immobilized on the removed dipstick. | 09-17-2015 |