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20120123887 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACE-TO-FACE MOBILE PHONE MERCANTILE TRANSACTIONS - Methods and arrangements for processing face-to-face mobile phone transactions. An agreed-upon price for a product is accepted from a buyer mobile phone and a seller mobile phone. Distinct random numbers are assigned to each of the buyer and seller mobile phones. The random number assigned to the seller mobile phone is received from the buyer mobile phone, and the random number assigned to the buyer mobile phone is received from the seller mobile phone. A match is ascertained between the buyer and seller mobile phones based on receipt from the buyer mobile phone the random number assigned to the seller mobile phone and receipt from the seller mobile phone the random number assigned to the buyer mobile phone. | 05-17-2012 |
20130198313 | USING ENTITY TAGS (ETAGS) IN A HIERARCHICAL HTTP PROXY CACHE TO REDUCE NETWORK TRAFFIC - Disclosed is a program for validating a web cache independent of an origin server. A computer in between a client computer and the origin server computer receives a request for a resource and an entity tag (ETag) corresponding to the request. The computer forwards the request to the origin server and subsequently receives the resource. The computer generates an ETag for the received resource and compares the generated ETag to the ETag corresponding to the request. If the ETags match, the computer sends an indication toward the client computer that the resource has not been modified. | 08-01-2013 |
20140019576 | INTELLIGENT EDGE CACHING - Disclosed is a program for pre-fetching resources. A computer, communicatively coupled to a plurality of client computers and a server computer, identifies a resource, through an examination of one or more HTTP server logs, that is cached on at least one of the plurality of client computers and has been validated by the server computer. The computer determines to pre-fetch the resource based on one or more predefined rules, at least one of the predefined rules including a threshold number of responses validating the resource that must be received by the computer. The computer pre-fetches and caches the resource from the server computer. The computer receives a request for the resource from a client computer that does not have the resource cached. The computer validates resource cached locally and sends the resource to the client computer from the local cache on the computer. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019577 | INTELLIGENT EDGE CACHING - Disclosed is a program for pre-fetching resources. A computer, communicatively coupled to a plurality of client computers and a server computer, identifies a resource, through an examination of one or more HTTP server logs, that is cached on at least one of the plurality of client computers and has been validated by the server computer. The computer determines to pre-fetch the resource based on one or more predefined rules, at least one of the predefined rules including a threshold number of responses validating the resource that must be received by the computer. The computer pre-fetches and caches the resource from the server computer. The computer receives a request for the resource from a client computer that does not have the resource cached. The computer validates resource cached locally and sends the resource to the client computer from the local cache on the computer. | 01-16-2014 |
20140128111 | CONVERGED DIALOG IN HYBRID MOBILE APPLICATIONS - According to one aspect of the present disclosure a system and technique for converged dialog in hybrid mobile applications is disclosed. The system includes: a processor and a hybrid communications manager executable by the processor. The hybrid communications manager is operable to: responsive to receiving a short message service (SMS) request from an SMS device, determine a data policy corresponding to the request; initiate an SMS communication dialog with the SMS device to collect data corresponding to the data policy; determine whether the data policy indicates a need for a dialog with a hybrid device; and responsive to determining that the data policy indicates a need for a dialog with a hybrid device, initiate a non-SMS communication dialog with a hybrid device corresponding to the collected data. | 05-08-2014 |
20140128112 | CONVERGED DIALOG IN HYBRID MOBILE APPLICATIONS - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for converged dialog in hybrid mobile applications is disclosed. The method includes: responsive to receiving a short message service (SMS) request from an SMS device, determining a data policy corresponding to the request; initiating an SMS communication dialog with the SMS device to collect data corresponding to the data policy; determining whether the data policy indicates a need for a dialog with a hybrid device; and responsive to determining that the data policy indicates a need for a dialog with a hybrid device, initiating a non-SMS communication dialog with a hybrid device corresponding to the collected data. | 05-08-2014 |
20150324712 | INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS AND BENEFITS TRACKING - A method and system for tracking an IT infrastructure is provided. The method includes modeling an IT infrastructure as a collection of hardware components, software components, and networking components. An observer agent is deployed on each of the components. The observer agent performs a measurement process with respect to each of the components and a mapping process is performed with respect to the measurement process. An aggregation module is deployed and an aggregation process is performed with respect to results of the mapping process. In response, a two dimensional moving graph indicating results of the aggregation process is generated and displayed. | 11-12-2015 |
20150365407 | AUTHENTICATION OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method and computer program product for authenticating a mobile application. According to one embodiment the method comprises registering, by a computer processor of a computer system, the mobile application, wherein the registration includes receiving and storing information associated with the mobile application, receiving, by the computer processor, one or more application details associated with the mobile application from a computing device, comparing, by the computer processor, the received one or more application details associated with the mobile application with the stored information associated with the mobile application, generating, by the computer processor, a notification based on the comparison to indicate authenticity of the mobile application and sending the notification to the computing device. | 12-17-2015 |
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20110132064 | FLOWMETERS AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSIS OF SENSOR UNITS - A method and an apparatus for diagnosis of a flowmeter are disclosed. The method includes thermally coupling a first sensor unit of the flowmeter to a fluid and thermally coupling a second sensor unit of the flowmeter to the fluid. The method also includes actively heating or cooling the first sensor unit by applying power to the first sensor unit such that its temperature is different from the temperature of the fluid, and simultaneously actively heating or cooling the second sensor unit by applying power to the second sensor unit such that its temperature is different from the temperature of the fluid, and typically from the temperature of the first sensor. The method can include determining a temperature TM | 06-09-2011 |
20110248178 | OXYGEN CONCENTRATION MEASURING DEVICE - An oxygen concentration measuring device is provided for determining an oxygen concentration of a gas in a sample volume. The device includes an optical device configured for irradiating the sample volume containing oxygen with a first UV radiation intensity, at least one wavelength of which is close to a spectral absorption line of oxygen, a magnetic field generator configured for applying a magnetic field at the sample volume, and a UV light detector configured for measuring a second UV radiation intensity coming from the sample volume. The oxygen concentration in the sample volume is determined on the basis of the applied magnetic field and the measured second UV radiation intensity. | 10-13-2011 |
20120304903 | OPTICAL FLAME SENSOR - Exemplary embodiments relates to an optical measurement that determines the temperature in a flame and determines the particle size of the fuel present in the flame. The optical measurement device includes a color camera that measures light information in the flame and outputs measurement results and an evaluation unit that evaluates the measurement results. Further, a coal burning power plant is provided with a multitude of burners that burn milled coal each in a flame and a multitude of optical measurement devices described. | 12-06-2012 |
20130306525 | FROTH FLOTATION CONTROL - A system and method utilize model-based control of a froth flotation process for concentrating a desired target mineral from ground ore. The system and method exploit real time information about a surface tension of a pulp or flotation solution including the minerals. The surface tension represents exemplary additional information about the surface chemistry in the flotation process, and as such enables a refinement of a pulp model used in control of the flotation process. Ultimately, operational efficiency of a froth flotation plant is increased. | 11-21-2013 |
20140036257 | Analyzer Instrument And Methods For Operating Same - An instrument for optically measuring at least one property of a test medium, includes a light source for emission of light, a light management unit for guiding the light onto and/or into and through a detection space in the test medium, a light detection unit for detecting a fraction of the light scattered, reflected or transmitted by the test medium, a power management unit, and a data management unit. The instrument further includes or is coupled to a power source via a source wiring. The power management unit distributes energy from the power source via a buffer wiring to the light source, and via a further wiring to the light detection unit and the data management unit. The data management unit exchanges measurement data via signal wiring with the light detection unit with a receiving unit. The instrument is adapted to be operated in a potentially hazardous environment. | 02-06-2014 |
20150380923 | Overcurrent Protection Device And Method - A power line protection system and method are described with a current meter for monitoring the current in the protected power line and a circuit breaker, with the current meter including a sensor, particularly a fiber optic current sensor, for monitoring a direct current component in the current transmitted and an analyser for testing the direct current component and for generating a fault signal for the circuit breaker. | 12-31-2015 |
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20100316025 | Sharing a Frequency Band Between Different Radio Communications Protocols - A method including enabling a first mode of a first radio communications protocol using a shared radio frequency band and having a first defined schedule for communication in the shared radio frequency band; enabling a second mode of a second radio communications protocol using the shared radio frequency band and having a second defined schedule for communication in the shared radio frequency band; and enabling the first mode and disabling the second mode at a conflict time at which the first defined schedule and the second defined schedule coincide. | 12-16-2010 |
20120253563 | Positioning Satellites - A method comprising: receiving first information for defining a first algebraic function that relates a time variable to a first mapped variable; using the function to convert a time variable value to a first value of the first mapped variable e.g. s; converting the first value of the first mapped variable to a second value of a second mapped variable e.g. U; and positioning a satellite by converting the second value of the second mapped variable value to a position value that positions a satellite. | 10-04-2012 |
20120274516 | Positioning - A positioning method comprising: solving a geometric algebraic expression that relates: position vectors for a plurality of antennas relative to a shared origin, a putative position vector for the shared origin and phase information measured at each of the plurality of antennas, to determine a position vector for the shared origin; and positioning an apparatus using the determined position vector for the shared origin. | 11-01-2012 |
20150285919 | POSITIONING SATELLITES - A method comprising: receiving first information for defining a first algebraic function that relates a time variable to a first mapped variable; using the function to convert a time variable value to a first value of the first mapped variable e.g. s; converting the first value of the first mapped variable to a second value of a second mapped variable e.g. U; and positioning a satellite by converting the second value of the second mapped variable value to a position value that positions a satellite. | 10-08-2015 |
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20140344823 | INTERRUPTION OF CHIP COMPONENT MANAGING TASKS - Embodiments include an apparatus comprising a processor and a computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code. The computer usable program code can be configured to determine whether priority of a requested task is higher than a priority of a currently executing task. The computer usable program code can be further configured to determine whether a value indicates that the currently executing task can be interrupted. The computer usable program code can be configured to trigger execution of the requested task on the processor, if the value indicates that the currently executed task can be interrupted. The computer usable program code can be further configured to wait for lapse of a time period and, interrupt the currently executing task upon detection of lapse of the time period or detection of a change to the value, if the value indicates that the currently executing task cannot be interrupted. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344824 | INTERRUPTION OF CHIP COMPONENT MANAGING TASKS - Embodiments include receiving, at a microcontroller of a chip, a request to execute a first task having a first priority. Embodiments further include determining that a second task having a second priority is currently executing. Embodiments further include determining that the first priority is higher than the second priority. Embodiments further include determining whether a value in a register indicates that the second task can be interrupted. If it is determined that the second task can be interrupted, embodiments further include triggering execution of the second task. If it is determined that the second task cannot be interrupted, embodiments further include waiting for lapse of a time period since receipt of the request to execute the first task, and interrupting the second task upon detecting lapse of the time period, or detecting, prior to the lapse of the time period, that the second task can be interrupted. | 11-20-2014 |