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20100081575 | Methods for creating diversity in libraries and libraries, display vectors and methods, and displayed molecules - Provided herein are methods for generating diverse polypeptide and nucleic acid molecule libraries and collections, and the collections and libraries; methods for selecting variant polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules from the libraries; and molecules selected from the libraries. Exemplary of the polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules are antibodies and nucleic acids encoding the antibodies (including antibody fragments and domain exchanged antibodies). Also provided herein are methods of displaying polypeptides such as antibodies, for example on the surface of genetic packages, such as phage; and libraries and collections of the displayed polypeptides and vectors for producing the displayed polypeptides, libraries and collections. Exemplary of the displayed antibodies are domain exchanged antibodies. | 04-01-2010 |
20100093563 | Methods and vectors for display of molecules and displayed molecules and collections - Provided herein are methods for generating diverse polypeptide and nucleic acid molecule libraries and collections, and the collections and libraries; methods for selecting variant polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules from the libraries; and molecules selected from the libraries. Exemplary of the polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules are antibodies and nucleic acids encoding the antibodies (including antibody fragments and domain exchanged antibodies). Also provided herein are methods of displaying polypeptides such as antibodies, for example on the surface of genetic packages, such as phage; and libraries and collections of the displayed polypeptides and vectors for producing the displayed polypeptides, libraries and collections. Exemplary of the displayed antibodies are domain exchanged antibodies. | 04-15-2010 |
20110033389 | Modified antibodies for passive immunotherapy - Provided herein are modified therapeutic antibodies containing a protein transduction domain conjugated to a neutralizing antibody. Also provided are methods for generating the modified therapeutic antibodies and methods of using the modified therapeutic antibodies for prevention and treatment of disease. | 02-10-2011 |
20110135645 | HUMAN ANTIBODIES NEUTRALIZING HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS - The present invention discloses methods for generating antibodies to human metapneumovirus (HMPV) polypeptides, including antibodies that immunospecifically bind to a HMPV F-protein. The invention also discloses methods for preventing, treating, or ameliorating symptoms associated with HMPV infection. | 06-09-2011 |
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20130195204 | Methods and Systems for Video Delivery Supporting Adaptation to Viewing Conditions - Described herein are methods and systems associated with viewing condition adaption of multimedia content. A method for receiving multimedia content with a device from a network may include determining a viewing parameter, transmitting a request for the multimedia content to the network, whereby the request may be based on the viewing parameter, and receiving the multimedia content from the network, whereby the multimedia content may be processed at a rate according to the viewing parameter. The viewing parameter may include at least one of: a user viewing parameter, a device viewing parameter, or a content viewing parameter. The method may further include receiving a multimedia presentation description (MPD) file from the network. The MPD file may include information relating to the rate of the multimedia content and information relating to the rate may include a descriptor relating to the viewing parameter, whereby the descriptor may be required or optional. | 08-01-2013 |
20130223513 | Error Resilient Rate Distortion Optimization for Image and Video Encoding - Error resilient rate distortion optimization (ERRDO) is used for transmitting high quality images and video over constrained bandwidth networks, e.g., in streaming applications. Transmitting high quality images and video by reducing computational complexity is described. | 08-29-2013 |
20130279606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ERROR-RESILIENT VIDEO CODING - Error resilient video coding schemes that may be employed at a transmitter or transcoder to limit error propagation at the receiver. Embodiments may include the use of Inhomogeneous Temporal Multiple Description Coding (ITMDC), cross-description error concealment, and cross-description reference picture reset (RPS) as well as homogeneous and inhomogeneous temporal/spatial MDC. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282917 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SMOOTH STREAM SWITCHING IN MPEG/3GPP-DASH - A method and apparatus for providing smooth stream switching in video and/or audio encoding and decoding may be provided. Smooth stream switching may include the generation and/or display of one or more transition frames that may be utilized between streams of media content encoded at different rates. The transition frames may be generated via crossfading and overlapping, crossfading and transcoding, post-processing techniques using filtering, post-processing techniques using re-quantization, etc. Smooth stream switching may include receiving a first data stream of media content characterized by a first signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a second data stream of the media content characterized by a second SNR. Transition frames may be generated using at least one of frames of the first data stream and frames of the second data stream. The transition frames may be characterized by one or more SNR values that are between the first SNR and the second SNR. | 10-24-2013 |
20130315124 | SCALABLE VIDEO CODING OVER SIMULTANEOUS UNICAST/MULTICAST LTE DL SHARED CHANNEL - Embodiments contemplate devices and techniques for receiving unicast and multicast transmissions over a downlink (DL) shared channel in parallel, for example an LTE DL shared channel (SCH). For example, one or more hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entities may be configured to perform retransmissions of the multicast and/or unicast messages. Common and/or dedicated (e.g., separate) HARQ entities may be utilized for retransmission. The multicast downlink shared channels may be activated and/or deactivated on demand. The activation and/or deactivation may be performed using radio resource control (RRC) signaling and/or Medium Access Control (MAC) signaling. The multicast and/or unicast downlink shared channel data may include scalable video coding (SVC) data of varying priority. Embodiments also contemplate the use of simultaneous (e.g. parallel) multicast/unicast for scalable video coding transmission over WiFi/802.11 protocol signals. | 11-28-2013 |
20140019593 | QUALITY-DRIVEN STREAMING - Quality-based optimizations of a delivery process of streaming content may be enabled. The optimization may take the form of quality-based switching. To enable quality-based switching in a streaming client, the client may have access to information about the quality of an encoded segment and/or sub-segment. Quality-related information may include any number of added quality metrics relating to an encoded segment and/or sub-segment of an encoded video stream. The addition of quality-related information may be accomplished by including the quality-related information in a manifest file, including the quality-related information in segment indices stored in a segment index file, and/or providing additional files with quality-related segment information and providing a link to the information from an MPD file. Upon receiving the quality-related information, the client may request and receive a stream that has a lower bitrate, thereby saving bandwidth while retaining quality of the streaming content. | 01-16-2014 |
20150229970 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PACKET DIFFERENTIATION - Methods and systems are disclosed facilitate differentiated QoS service for packets within a single packet stream. For example, extended QCI values may be used to differentiate service of video packets associated with different priorities. A flexible representation of QoS requirements/parameters is disclosed where QoS may be defined as a hyperspace that is a function of base QoS parameters. A WTRU may explicitly specify and/or request desired QoS parameters. A WTRU may be configured to perform one or more of video packet separation into a plurality of video packet sub-streams, merging of the video packet sub-streams, and/or reordering of the packets included in the video packet sub-streams. Techniques may be utilized to exposing more information to a data transmission network regarding the type of video packets (and/or other packets) being transmitted. | 08-13-2015 |
20150241962 | USER PRESENCE DETECTION IN MOBILE DEVICES - Systems, methods, and instrumentalities may be provided for determining user presence in a mobile device, e.g., using one or more sensors. A mobile device may detect a face. The mobile device may determine a face distance that is associated with the detected face. The mobile device may determine a motion status that may indicate whether the mobile device is in motion or is at rest. The mobile device may use information from one or more sensors to determine the motion status. The mobile device may confirm a user presence based on the face distance and the motion status. | 08-27-2015 |
20150264359 | VIDEO CODING USING PACKET LOSS DETECTION - Using wireless packet loss data in the encoding of video data. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving wireless packet loss data at a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU); generating video packet loss data from the wireless packet loss data, and providing the video packet loss data to a video encoder application running on the WTRU for use in encoding video data. The video encoder may perform an error propagation reduction process in response to the video packet loss data. The error propagation reduction process includes one or more of generating an instantaneous Decode Refresh frame or generating an Intra Refresh frame. Some embodiments may be characterized as using a reference picture selection method, or a reference set of pictures selection method. | 09-17-2015 |
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20090163637 | Filler system including densed fumed metal oxide - A curable coating composition includes a polymer precursor and at least 6% by weight of a densed fumed metal oxide having a DBP number of at least 65% of the DBP number of an undensed fumed metal oxide of the same composition, surface area, and surface chemistry. The curable coating composition is at most 70% as viscous as a composition having the same components and the same weight fraction of the undensed fumed metal oxide. | 06-25-2009 |
20100216911 | Method of Preparing a Nanoparticle Dispersion of a Modified Metal Oxide - The present invention relates to a method of preparing polymer compositions comprising modified metal oxides in a polymer wherein a nanoparticle dispersion of a metal oxide in a non-aqueous solvent is combined with at least one coupling agent to form a nanoparticle dispersion of a modified metal oxide in the non-aqueous solvent. The nanoparticle dispersion is then combined with a polymer followed by the removal of the non-aqueous solvent or, alternatively, combined with a monomer, which is polymerized to form the polymer and removal of the solvent, in any order. Also disclosed are polymer compositions prepared by this method. | 08-26-2010 |
20120322002 | Toner Additive Comprising Carbon-Silica Dual Phase Particles - The invention provides a toner composition comprising resin particles, a colorant, and a toner additive, wherein the toner additive comprises carbon-silica dual phase particles, wherein the carbon-silica dual phase particles comprise aggregates of carbon black comprising at least one silicon-containing region, and wherein the carbon-silica dual phase particles are distributed on the surface of the resin particles. The invention also provides a method of preparing the aforesaid toner composition. | 12-20-2012 |
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20140293962 | CELL HANDOVER METHOD, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a cell handover method, a base station, and a communication system. The method includes: determining, by a source base station, to hand over a terminal from a cell of the source base station to a cell of a target base station; acquiring, by the source base station, a wireless resource, where the wireless resource is used to carry a handover request sent to the terminal; sending, by the source base station, a first message to a first base station, where the first message includes the wireless resource and the first message is used to instruct the first base station to avoid occupying the wireless resource; and sending, by the source base station, the handover request to the terminal, so as to hand over the terminal to the cell of the target base station. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295818 | Method, Base Station, and Network System for Automatic X2 Configuration Deletion - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a base station, and a network system for automatic X2 configuration deletion, where implementation of the method includes: acquiring, by a first base station, neighboring-cell configuration data of a second base station; determining, by the first base station according to neighboring-cell configuration data of the first base station and the neighboring-cell configuration data of the second base station, whether a neighboring-cell relationship exists between the first base station and the second base station; and if no neighboring-cell relationship exists between the first base station and the second base station, deleting X2 configuration data corresponding to an X2 interface between the first base station and the second base station. The foregoing solution implements automatic deletion of redundant X2 configuration data and does not require that the first base station and the second base station be managed by a same network management system. | 10-02-2014 |
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20090023395 | PASSIVE INTERFACE AND SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION FOR PORTABLE DEVICES - A universal passive interface for connecting external systems to smart devices such as cell phones and PDAs. The passive system includes a cradle for receiving a compatible smart device that connects the functionality of the smart device to a wide variety of external systems (e.g., printers, large display, input devices, etc.). The passive interface includes a USB hub, network port, and other common connector ports for peripherals and other systems. The smart device can connect to the passive system via the cradle slot, a tether, and/or wirelessly. The external systems to which the passive system serves at the interface to the smart device include, but are not limited to, large displays (e.g., television), external monitors, input devices such as mice and keyboards, external storage devices, and networks (wired and/or wireless). A wizard allows the user to configure the external systems to work with the smart device. | 01-22-2009 |
20100314289 | CATALYTIC CRACKING PROCESS FOR REDUCING SULFUR CONTENT IN GASOLINE AND THE DEVICE THEREOF - The invention relates to a catalytic cracking process for reducing sulfur content in gasoline and the device thereof, which includes a fluidized bed reactor in addition of a heavy oil catalytic cracking riser, characterized in enhancing contact time of oil-gas with the catalyst, further desulfurizing and reducing olefin content and increasing octane number in gasoline; regenerating all recycling catalysts, quality of products being stable and easily operated, reducing sulfur of gasoline to a maximum limit; adding a cooling device so as to avoid coking when the catalyst contacts with oil-gas in high temperature and decrease of yield of light oil resulted by excessively high reaction temperature of gasoline upgrading, improving products distribution, being flexible to change catalyst-oil ratio and reaction temperature of catalytic cracking reaction. The invention also provides an easily operated process for FCC desulfurization with stronger desulfurizing ability, good selectivity of products and high light oil yield, which can realize 40-80% of FCC gasoline desulfurization. Furthermore, more than 80% of FCC gasoline desulfurization can be achieved if the process is applied in combination with some particular catalysts. | 12-16-2010 |
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20120311328 | PROBE RESPONSE SUPPORTED WIRELESS AUTOCONNECTION - Computing devices can autoconnect to access points even if they have not previously received authentication information for those access points. A computing device broadcasts a probe request, comprising a request for authentication information. An access point receiving such a probe request generates a probe response that provides authentication information that the computing device can then utilize to establish a useful communication connection to the access point. The provided authentication information can be either encrypted or unencrypted, and can be encrypted for specific users or specific computing devices. Dedicated application programs can decrypt encrypted authentication information, thereby enabling autoconnecting, while also delivering targeted information to users of the autoconnecting computing devices from a retailer hosting the access point. Authentication information for a “landing page” can be provided to a web browser to enable autoconnection. | 12-06-2012 |
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20120078715 | ADVERTISING SERVICE BASED ON CONTENT AND USER LOG MINING - A system and method are disclosed for providing documents related to a search request. The search request may include a search query of one or more keywords, or the search request may be a demographic search query including one or more demographic attributes. An index containing data crawled from publisher's websites, demographic information of registered users, along with the search history of the registered users can be created. Once a search request is received, the search request can be compared to the information stored in the index, and one or more documents related to the request can be provided. | 03-29-2012 |
20130021738 | Information Processing Device - An information processing device that includes a first housing for accommodating a calculating means; a second housing for accommodating a display means; a third housing for accommodating an input means and a power supply means; a first connection means for connecting the first housing with the third housing; and a second connection means for connecting the second housing with the third housing. | 01-24-2013 |
20140049909 | Information Processing Equipment - An information processing equipment is described. The equipment includes: a first shell being configured to contain an arithmetic unit, a second shell being configured to contain a display unit, a third shell being configured to contain an input unit, a first connect unit being configured to separately connect the second shell and the third shell; and a second connect unit being configured to separately connect the first shell with the third shell. When the first shell, the second shell and the third shell are separated from each other, the display unit wirelessly exchanges data with the arithmetic unit and the input unit wirelessly exchanges data with the arithmetic unit. | 02-20-2014 |
20140210832 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method and an electronic device. A first electronic device has a display unit and a second electronic device has a processing unit. The first electronic device and the second electronic device communicate data with each other wirelessly. The first electronic device receives data transmitted from the second electronic device for displaying on the display unit. The display unit of the first electronic device displays at a first display frame rate a data transmitted from the second electronic device in a first mode. The first electronic device transmits, upon detecting a first trigger event, information associated with the first trigger event to the second electronic device. The first electronic device receives and displays a data transmitted from the second electronic device in a second mode. These two electronic devices can be automatically switched between the two display frame rates and the two modes in response to the first trigger event. One of the first and second display frame rates has a lower power consumption than the other. Therefore, the power consumptions of the first and second electronic devices can be reduced. | 07-31-2014 |
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20080198976 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING RINGBACK TONE SERVICE - A method for implementing the ringback tone (RBT) service based on the next generation network (NGN) includes: an application server (AS) receives from a softswitch (SX) a call request initiated by a ring-to-me subscriber, which carries a ring-to-me access code; the AS obtains the ring-to-me tone ID from the RBT platform according to the ring-to-me access code and instructs a media resource server (MRS) to play the tone indicated by the ring-to-me tone ID to the calling party. Various embodiments disclose a system, an AS and an MRS for implementing RBT based on NGN. The present disclosure enables a calling party to listen to a ring-to-me tone while the called party is alerted and further, it enables the calling party to choose to listen to a ring-to-me tone or a ring-to-you tone according to the calling party's precedence setting. | 08-21-2008 |
20080212483 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR END-TO-END LINK DETECTION AND POLICY ROUTING SWITCHING - In a method for end-to-end link detection, a link state of a first network device is bound to a reliability detection mechanism session established between the first network device and a second network device, and the first network device detects the link state of the first network device and notifies the second network device of the link state of the first network device through the reliability detection mechanism session. In a method for policy routing switching, the second network device records received link state information of the first network device, configures a relation between a policy routing and a link. The second network device determines a link corresponding to a selected policy routing, and switches a policy routing according to the state of the link. Apparatuses corresponding to the methods also provided. The methods and apparatuses can implement the end-to-end link detection, and initiate switching in time. | 09-04-2008 |
20150180274 | Energy-saving and environment-friendly device for communication system equipment - Disclosed is an energy-saving and environment-friendly device for a communication system equipment, the device includes: a thermoelectric conversion module, arranged on a surface of or in proximity to a high-power module of the communication system equipment, configured to convert thermal energy of the high-power module into electric energy; and an electric power storage device, connected directly to the thermoelectric conversion module or connected thereto via a switch, configured to be charged using electric energy supplied by the thermoelectric conversion module. | 06-25-2015 |
20150222381 | AUTOMATIC GAIN ADJUSTMENT AND CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ELIMINATING INTERFERENCE BETWEEN GSM AND LTE IN MSR RECEIVER - The disclosure relates to an automatic gain adjustment and control method and device for eliminating the interference between the GSM and the LTE in the MSR receiver. The method comprises: in an MSP receiver, an upper threshold and a lower threshold which are used for starting up gain control function are set; the ADC power of an ADC of the MSP receiver is detected when LTE OFMD starts; the detected ADC power is compared with the upper threshold and the lower threshold respectively; and based on that the comparison result is that the ADC power is larger than the upper threshold or is smaller than the lower threshold, the gain control function of the MSP receiver is started up, and otherwise, the gain control function of the MSP receiver is not started up. The disclosure can control the LTE and GSM signal power within a certain range. | 08-06-2015 |