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20080215244 | Making Directional Measurements using a Rotating and Non-Rotating Drilling Apparatus - A system and method to determine directional measurements for a drilling tool that at times rotates and at other times does not rotate. The method comprises making a first set of measurements when the apparatus is rotating, making a second set of measurements when the apparatus is not rotating, and combining the first and second sets of measurements to obtain the directional measurements. The system comprises a transmitter-receiver pair wherein the transmitter has a magnetic dipole moment parallel to a longitudinal axis of the apparatus and the receiver has a magnetic dipole moment that is tilted relative to the longitudinal axis of the apparatus, an electronics module to excite the transmitter and detect a receiver signal to make a first set of measurements when the apparatus is rotating and a second set of measurements when the apparatus is not rotating, and a processor to combine the first and second sets of measurements to obtain the directional measurements. | 09-04-2008 |
20090015261 | DETERMINING FORMATION PARAMETERS USING ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING COMPONENTS - A method to determine one or more parameters of a formation traversed by a borehole, at least a portion of the formation having substantially parallel boundaries, the method comprising disposing a tool in the borehole, wherein the tool includes a transmitter having a dipole moment at an angle θ | 01-15-2009 |
20100030477 | ELECTROMAGNETIC DIRECTIONAL MEASUREMENTS FOR NON-PARALLEL BED FORMATIONS - An orientation vector, referred to hereinafter as the “geosteering vector,” is directed to the more conductive formation area within the DOI of the tool and away from the more resistive formation areas. Accordingly, drilling in a direction opposite the geosteering vector leads to more resistive formation. Also, the disclosed geosteering vectors obtained from the real and imaginary components will not align with each other for non-planar formations and therefore the misalignment of the geosteering obtained from real and imaginary components is indicative of a non-planar formation. A superposition method is disclosed which can be used to calculate electromagnetic (EM) couplings in a non-planar geometry formation (as well as in a planar geometry formation) in real time, without requiring two or three dimensional modeling calculations. | 02-04-2010 |
20110068798 | IMAGING USING DIRECTIONAL RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENTS - The present disclosure relates to a method to produce an image of a subsurface formation using directional measurements. A downhole logging tool having one or more transmitters and one or more receivers, and being capable of making directional measurements, is used to measure the voltage in a particular receiver due to a particular transmitter for one or more transmitter/receiver pairs, at least one of those voltage measurements being a directional measurement. The complex (phasor) voltage recorded on a receiver coil is divided by the complex voltage recorded at another reference receiver coil. Alternatively, we can use the ratio of a receiver voltage at a particular rotation angle of the tool divided by the voltage on the same receiver when the tool has rotated by an angle of 180 degrees. The information in those ratios is combined to produce images of the resistivity of the subsurface formation surrounding the tool. | 03-24-2011 |
20110098929 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEYS - A technique provides a methodology for improving surveys of subterranean regions. The methodology comprises estimating macro anisotropy and an intrinsic or micro anisotropy of an overburden. A surface electromagnetic survey is conducted, and the data from the survey is inverted based on or including information gained from estimating the macro anisotropy and/or intrinsic anisotropy. A processor system can be used to conduct the inversion with the adjustments for anisotropy to improve the information provided by the survey. | 04-28-2011 |
20110140701 | DETERMINING PROPERTIES OF EARTH FORMATIONS USING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING TENSOR - A system and method to determine earth formation properties by positioning a logging tool within a wellbore in the earth formation, the logging tool having a tool rotation axis and a first, a second, and a third tilted transmitter coil, and a tilted receiver coil; rotating the logging tool about the tool rotation axis; energizing each transmitter coil; measuring a coupling signal between each transmitter coil and the receiver coil for a plurality of angles of rotation; determining a coupling tensor; and determining the earth formation properties using the coupling tensor. | 06-16-2011 |
20110291855 | LOGGING TOOL WITH ANTENNAS HAVING EQUAL TILT ANGLES - The present disclosure relates to a downhole logging tool that includes two or more tilted antennas having equal tilt angles mounted in or on the tool body. The downhole logging tool may be, for example, a wireline or while-drilling tool, and it may be an induction or propagation tool. Various symmetrized and anti-symmetrized responses may be computed and used to infer formation properties and drilling parameters. | 12-01-2011 |
20110309833 | DETERMINING RESISTIVITY ANISTOTROPY AND FORMATION STRUCTURE FOR VERTICAL WELLBORE SECTIONS - Formation properties in a vertical section of a wellbore are determined by considering the vertical section as consisting of one or more segments. Measurements are obtained with a directional resistivity tool at two or more measurement stations within each segment for which the complex 0 | 12-22-2011 |
20120286790 | Determining Formation Parameters Using Electromagnetic Coupling Components - A method and a downhole tool determine one or more parameters of a formation traversed by a borehole where at least a portion of the formation has substantially parallel boundaries. A tool is disposed in the borehole that includes a transmitter having a dipole moment at an angle θ | 11-15-2012 |
20130027044 | IMAGING USING DIRECTIONAL RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENTS - The present disclosure relates to a method to produce an image of a subsurface formation using directional measurements. A downhole logging tool having one or more transmitters and one or more receivers, and being capable of making directional measurement, is used to measure the voltage in a particular receiver due to a particular transmitter for one or more transmitter/receiver pairs, at least one of those voltage measurements being a directional measurement. The complex (phasor) voltage recorded on a receiver coil is divided by the complex voltage recorded at another reference receiver coil. Alternatively, we can use the ratio of a receiver voltage at a particular rotation angle of the tool divided by the voltage on the same receiver when the tool has rotated by an angle of 180 degrees. The information in those ratios is combined to produce images of the resistivity of the subsurface formation surrounding the tool. | 01-31-2013 |
20130080102 | Measuring The Phase Of Received Signals - The present disclosure relates to a method to determine the phase of a signal when transmitter and receiver circuits use separate clocks. A discrepancy between the separate clocks is determined, as is a correction factor between the separate clocks. The phase is determined using a measured time of arrival of the signal, the determined discrepancy, and the determined correction factor. A drift factor and an expected start time of a pulse sequence may be used to determine the discrepancy. A start time of a pulse within the pulse sequence is determined and used to determine the correction factor. The method works by either absolute synchronization of the separate clocks, or by making the measurements independent of clock synchronization. | 03-28-2013 |
20130261975 | Anisotropy Processing In Low Angle Wells - A method for logging subsurface formations penetrated by a wellbore include measuring electromagnetic properties of the formations using electromagnetic fields having a magnetic dipole axis parallel to a logging tool axis Electromagnetic properties of the formations are also measured using electromagnetic fields having a magnetic dipole axis oblique to the logging tool axis. A horizontal resistivity of the formations is determined from the parallel dipole axis measurements. A vertical resistivity, formation layer boundaries and a dip angle of the formations are determined from the oblique dipole axis measurements. | 10-03-2013 |
20140019051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEYS - A technique provides a methodology for improving surveys of subterranean regions. The methodology comprises estimating macro anisotropy and an intrinsic or micro anisotropy of an overburden. A surface electromagnetic survey is conducted, and the data from the survey is inverted based on or including information gained from estimating the macro anisotropy and/or intrinsic anisotropy. A processor system can be used to conduct the inversion with the adjustments for anisotropy to improve the information provided by the survey. | 01-16-2014 |
20140292340 | Antenna, Tool, and Methods for Directional Electromagnetic Well Logging - The present disclosure describes various antenna assemblies, each antenna coil being disposed about a tool body section in an antenna pathway. The antenna pathway passes through alternating grooves and lands. In each embodiment, at least one of the grooves is disposed in the tool body section at a non-axial direction relative to the longitudinal axis of the tool body section. In an embodiment, the antenna coil is an axial coil or a tilted coil. Additional grooves oriented at axial direction may be disposed on the tool body section. Each of the antenna assemblies disclosed may be employed in an electromagnetic logging tool for providing directional measurements while drilling. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292341 | Method and Tool for Directional Electromagnetic Well Logging - A directional antenna, system and method are provided. The methods include acquiring a plurality of data pairs, each data pair comprising an induced signal at a receiver and a corresponding toolface angle using a tool including at least one antenna assembly, as described herein. It further discloses a method to generate a measurement containing information about the directionality of the formation by calculating areas of an induced signal function approximated by the plurality of data pairs. | 10-02-2014 |
20150073713 | System And Method For Improving Surface Electromagnetic Surveys - A technique provides a methodology for improving surveys of subterranean regions. The methodology comprises estimating macro anisotropy and an intrinsic or micro anisotropy of an overburden. A surface electromagnetic survey is conducted, and the data from the survey is inverted based on or including information gained from estimating the macro anisotropy and/or intrinsic anisotropy. A processor system can be used to conduct the inversion with the adjustments for anisotropy to improve the information provided by the survey. | 03-12-2015 |
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20110052895 | FLAME RETARDANT THERMOPLASTIC POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITIONS AND FILMS MADE THEREFROM - Described herein is a thermoplastic composition comprising a polycarbonate, a mineral filler, inorganic acid or acid salt, an anti-drip agent, and a flame retardant comprising a perfluoroalkyl sulfonate salt or a combination of an aromatic phosphate ester and a polycarbonate-siloxane block copolymer. | 03-03-2011 |
20120087366 | Method And Apparatus For Synchronizing AAL2 Path States - The present invention provides a method and apparatus of synchronizing AAL2 path states between ATM adaptation layer type 2 (AAL2) signaling nodes, wherein a AAL2 signaling node as a synchronization requesting end sends a path state request message to a peer AAL2 signaling node of an AAL2 path, the peer AAL2 signaling node performs local check on the state of the AAL2 path designated by the request message after receiving the request message, and the peer AAL2 signaling node controls consistency synchronization processing on the AAL2 path states at two ends based on the result of the check. The present invention may avoid initial call failure incurred by inconsistency between states at two ends of an AAL2 path and improves success ratio of AAL2 path establishment. | 04-12-2012 |
20120110526 | Method and Apparatus for Tracking Uncertain Signals - A method and an apparatus for tracking uncertain signals in the simulation of chip design are provided. The method comprises: generating a directed graph which contains sequential logic devices and IO devices from the netlist of chip design, wherein the directed graph illustrates the signal association among the sequential logic devices and IO devices; obtaining the signals related with the sequential logic devices and IO devices from the simulation results, wherein the signals contain a plurality of uncertain signals; and back tracing at least a part of the plurality of uncertain signals along the directed graph to determine the device which firstly generates an uncertain signal. The corresponding apparatus is also provided. With the above method and apparatus, uncertain signals can be traced and their source can be determined, which improves the debugging efficiency. | 05-03-2012 |
20130169636 | Accelerated Compute Tessellation by Compact Topological Data Structure - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for tessellation using shaders. New graphics pipeline stages implemented by shaders are introduced, including an inner ring shader, an outer edge shader, and topologic shader, which work together with a domain shader and geometry shader to provide tessellated points and primitives. A hull shader is modified to compute values used by the new shaders to perform tessellation algorithms. This approach provides parallelism and customizability to the presently static tessellation engine implementation. | 07-04-2013 |
20130216801 | Transparent Thin-Wall Scratch-Resistant Article - A plastic article is described having a substrate of a substantially transparent substrate having a thickness of from 0.2 mm to 3.0 mm, and including a thermoplastic composition comprising a polycarbonate and having a melt flow index as defined by ASTM D1238 of 10 g/10 min. to 50 g/10 min. at 300° C. and a 1.2 kg load, the thermoplastic composition including a polycarbonate, the thermoplastic composition comprising 20 mol % to 80 mol % of specified cyclohexylidene-bridged carbonate units and 80 mol % to 20 mol % of specified other carbonate units. The substrate has a hard coat thereon that provides the article with a pencil hardness of at least 5H as determined according to JIS K5400 using a 0.75 kgf load. | 08-22-2013 |
20130317145 | FLAME RETARDANT POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITIONS, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a flame retardant composition comprising a polycarbonate composition, glass fibers, and a flame retardant that comprises a phenoxyphosphazene compound. Disclosed herein too are methods for manufacturing a flame retardant composition that comprises blending a polycarbonate composition, glass fibers and a flame retardant that comprises a phenoxyphosphazene compound. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317146 | FLAME RETARDANT POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITIONS, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a flame retardant composition comprising 10 to 90 weight percent of a linear polycarbonate; a branched polycarbonate; 10 to 70 weight percent of a polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer; and 1 to 20 weight percent of a phosphazene compound; were all weight percents are based on the total weight of the composition. Disclosed herein too is a method comprising blending 10 to 90 weight percent of a linear polycarbonate; a branched polycarbonate; 10 to 70 weight percent of a polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer; and 1 to 20 weight percent of a phosphazene compound; to form a flame retardant composition; were all weight percents are based on the total weight of the composition. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317147 | FLAME RETARDANT POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITIONS, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a flame retardant composition comprising 10 to 90 weight percent of a linear polycarbonate; 5 to 50 weight percent of a polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer; where the polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer comprises 10 weight percent or more of polysiloxane and where the molecular weight of the polysiloxane is 30,000 grams per mole or greater; and 1 to 20 weight percent of a phosphazene compound; where all weight percents are based on the total weight of the composition. | 11-28-2013 |
20130328884 | DIRECT OPENCL GRAPHICS RENDERING - A method and apparatus for rendering graphics is disclosed. An edge list and polygon list are generated from a polygon based model. Each polygon is handled in parallel. For each polygon, an active edge pair table is generated based on the polygon list and edge list. Active edge pairs are selected from the active edge table based on a minimum position on a predetermined axis. All active edge pairs that intersect a scan line are processed. The processing includes computing a color value for each pixel lying between points where each active edge pair intersects the scan line. The pixel is then rendered and the active edge table is updated. | 12-12-2013 |
20140181768 | AUTOMATED PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN - A method and apparatus for automated performance verification for integrated circuit design is described herein. The method includes test preparation and automated verification stages. The test preparation stage generates design feature-specific performance tests to meet expected performance goals under certain workloads using optimization approaches and for different design configurations. The automated verification stage is implemented by integrating functional, automated modules into a verification infrastructure. These modules include register transfer level (RTL) simulation, performance evaluation and performance publish modules. The RTL simulation module schedules performance testing jobs, runs a series of performance tests on simulation logic simultaneously and generates performance counters for each functional unit. The performance evaluation module consists of three sub-functions including a functional comparison between actual results and a reference file containing the expected results, performance measurements for throughput, execution time, and latency values, and performance analysis. The performance publish module publishes performance results and analysis reports. | 06-26-2014 |
20140357781 | POLYCARBONATE-SILOXANE COPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS WITH IMPROVED APPEARANCE PROPERTIES - Disclosed herein are methods and compositions polycarbonate blend compositions with improved appearance characteristics and impact characteristics. The resulting compositions, comprising a polycarbonate polymer, a first polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer, a second polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer, and optionally a color composition, can be used in the manufacture of articles while still retaining advantageous mechanical properties, melt flow properties, and appearance characteristics such as the ability to achieve deep black and bright white colors. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure. | 12-04-2014 |
20150079375 | POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITION - A composition includes at least one poly(aliphatic ester)-polycarbonate copolymer, a polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer, and glass fibers. The composition exhibits good flow, aesthetic, and impact properties. | 03-19-2015 |
20150245559 | LAWN MOWER WITH AN AUTOMATIC CLUTCH - A lawn mower with an automatic clutch has a shell, one or more blades pivotally installed in the shell, an engine in the shell for driving the blades to cut grass, a self-propelled motor in the shell, a retarding mechanism fixed with respect to the self-propelled motor, a self-propelled shaft driven by the retarding mechanism, a pair of rear wheels driven by the self-propelled shaft, a pair of front wheels on a front portion of the shell, a handle on a rear portion of the shell, a power, a control mechanism on the handle, and an automatic clutch provided between the self-propelled motor and the retarding mechanism. The automatic clutch has a tubular shell, an output shaft, a pair of symmetric block, a pair of elastic elements, an input shaft, and a crow block. | 09-03-2015 |
20150284564 | LOW TEMPERATURE IMPACT PROPERTIES IN PC-SILOXANE COPOLYMER BLEND WITH BLACK AND WHITE COLOR CAPACITY - The present disclosure describes polycarbonate-siloxane blends with a constant percentage of siloxane in the formulations. The polycarbonate-siloxane blends achieve improved impact properties, as well as the ability to achieve deep black and bright white colors. | 10-08-2015 |
20150300849 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING FLOW RATE OF STEEL MELT NEAR THE SURFACE THEREOF - A device for measuring the flow rate of steel melt near the surface thereof. The device has a flow rate detecting rod and a deflection device for the flow rate detecting rod. The deflection device for the flow rate detecting rod has a flow rate detecting rod counterweight, a deflection bearing sleeve, a deflection bearing, a deflection angle indicating board, a deflection angle pointer and a the flow rate detecting rod fastening bolt. | 10-22-2015 |
20150316574 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUSLY MEASURING FLOW RATE NEAR LIQUID STEEL SURFACE - The invention discloses a device for continuously measuring the flow rate of steel melt near surface thereof, wherein the device comprises a flow rate detecting rod ( | 11-05-2015 |
20150344687 | POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITION - A composition includes at least one poly(aliphatic ester)-polycarbonate copolymer, a polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer, non-bonding glass fibers, and titanium dioxide. The composition exhibits excellent impact properties and an ultra-white color. | 12-03-2015 |
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20090281963 | Fair Value Model Based System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Valuing Foreign-Based Securities in a Mutual Fund - A system and method for determining fair value prices of financial securities of international markets includes steps of selecting a universe of securities of a particular international market, computing overnight returns of each security in the selected universe over a predetermined past period of time, selecting at least one return factor of a domestic financial market from a plurality of return factors, computing, for each selected return factor, the return factor's daily return over said predetermined past period of time, calculating, for each selected return factor, a return factor coefficient for each security in the selected universe by performing a time series regression to obtain the contribution of each return factor's return to the security's overnight return, and storing each calculated return factor coefficient in a data file. | 11-12-2009 |
20100174666 | System and Method for Generating Real-Time Indicators iin a Trading List or Portfolio - A trading platform computer system for detecting an abnormal trading condition of a security uses real-time and estimated values of one or more variables associated with the condition of the security to generate one or more analytic metrics that are compared to empirical distributions based on one or more peer groups for the security. An indicator can then be displayed to a trader as an indication of the abnormal condition. | 07-08-2010 |
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20110276464 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING REAL-TIME INDICATORS IN A TRADING LIST OR PORTFOLIO - A trading platform computer system for detecting an abnormal trading condition of a security uses real-time and estimated values of one or more variables associated with the condition of the security to generate one or more analytic metrics that are compared to empirical distributions based on one or more peer groups for the security. An indicator can then be displayed to a trader as an indication of the abnormal condition. | 11-10-2011 |
20110320385 | FAIR VALUE MODEL BASED SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VALUING FOREIGN-BASED SECURITIES IN A MUTUAL FUND - A system and method for determining fair value prices of financial securities of international markets includes steps of selecting a universe of securities of a particular international market, computing overnight returns of each security in the selected universe over a predetermined past period of time, selecting at least one return factor of a domestic financial market from a plurality of return factors, computing, for each selected return factor, the return factor's daily return over said predetermined past period of time, calculating, for each selected return factor, a return factor coefficient for each security in the selected universe by performing a time series regression to obtain the contribution of each return factor's return to the security's overnight return, and storing each calculated return factor coefficient in a data file. | 12-29-2011 |
20120066151 | Factor Risk Model Based System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Generating Risk Forecasts - A computerized method for generating risk forecasts is provided. A set of securities is selected. A set of risk factors is selected. The risk factor returns a determined. A risk factor covariance matrix and an idiosyncratic variance matrix are constructed. For each risk factor, a factor loading coefficient is determined for each selected security. The risk factor covariance matrix is projected into a future forecast. The idiosyncratic variance matrix is projected into a future forecast. The factor loading coefficients, the future forecast of the risk factor covariance matrix, and the future forecast of the idiosyncratic variance matrix can be used to determine a forecast of the variance-covariance matrix for the selected securities. | 03-15-2012 |
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20100102875 | SUBSTRATE NOISE PASSIVE CANCELLATION METHOD FOR BUCK CONVERTER - A method for passive cancellation of substrate noise for a buck converter uses an on-chip capacitor to reduce the substrate noise. The capacitor achieves a close-magnitude noise with opposite phase for better noise cancellation effect in the substrate. The capacitor can be realized as a MOS capacitor, NMOS isolation ring n-well capacitor, n-well junction capacitor, isolated p-well junction capacitor, etc. The capacitor is easy to implement. Further, bond wire parasitic inductance in the buck converter is used to reduce substrate noise. | 04-29-2010 |
20100213990 | HIGH FREQUENCY POWER SWITCHING CIRCUIT WITH ADJUSTABLE DRIVE CURRENT - A MOSFET pre-driver circuit with highly adjustable drive current for a high frequency switching power MOSFET circuit decreases the peak of the drive current and power loss of the pre-driver while maintaining power loss of the power stage so that total power loss is decreased and circuit efficiency is increased. A resistor arranged in series with a source of the MOSFET of the pre-driver circuit is provided to adjust the drive current. | 08-26-2010 |
20110191355 | METHOD FOR MONITORING ABNORMAL STATE OF INTERNET INFORMATION - A method for monitoring abnormal state of Internet information by monitoring the change of hot words frequency in the Internet information. The method includes the following steps: 1) obtaining the current date word frequency data of common words appearing in the current date web pages; 2) combining with the hot words dictionary that the user focuses on to determine the current date keywords set of the Internet information; 3) determining the weight of each current date keyword; 4) determining the abnormal threshold of the current date keywords; 5) detecting the abnormal level of the current date keywords to determine the current date hot Internet information. The present invention calculates the abnormal level of keywords by monitoring the change of hot words frequency in the Internet information, predicts and gives alarm for the abnormal level of hot words frequency change, which makes the Internet information user react at the first moment. | 08-04-2011 |
20110197261 | SERVICE ACTIVATION METHOD, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND SERVER - A method for providing a mobile advertising (MobAd) service includes: receiving a MobAd service activation request sent by a terminal, where the MobAd service activation request includes collected terminal capability information; and providing a MobAd service to the terminal according to the terminal capability information. | 08-11-2011 |
20110219074 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INTERCOMMUNICATING ADDRESS BOOK INFORMATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT NETWORKS - A method for intercommunicating address book information between different networks is provided, which includes the following steps: an interworking request carrying address book information is received, in which the interworking request comes from a network address book system other than a Converged Address Book (CAB) system; the address book information is converted according to an address book format supported by a server of the CAB system; the converted address book information is sent to the CAB system. A device and a system for implementing the method are further provided. | 09-08-2011 |
20110231871 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR TARGET AREA FILTERING - A method, apparatus, and system for target area filtering are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a target area and filtering time of service information; obtaining a location of a terminal at the filtering time; and executing target area filtering according to the terminal location and the target area location. | 09-22-2011 |
20110238787 | Service Guide Sending Method, Service Guide Acquiring Method, Server, Terminal and System - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a Service Guide (SG) sending method, an SG acquiring method, a server, a terminal, and a system. The SG sending method includes: generating a Service Guide Delivery Descriptor (SGDD) that includes interactive SG description information as a basis for a terminal to determine whether to acquire an SG through an interactive network; and sending the SGDD to the terminal. The SG acquiring method includes: according to a received SGDD, acquiring interactive SG description information included in the SGDD; and acquiring the SG through an interactive network if the interactive SG description information fulfills preset conditions. | 09-29-2011 |
20110258332 | METHOD, PUSH SYSTEM, AND RELEVANT DEVICES FOR SETTING UP PUSH SESSION - A method, a push system, and relevant devices for setting, up a push session are provided. The method for setting up a push session includes: obtaining device identity information of a client; adding the device identity information of the client to a Session Initiation Request (SIR) message; and sending the SIR message to the client according to the device identity information of the client, and requesting the client to set up a push session connection based on a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) with a server according to the SIR message. The push system includes a server and a client. The server includes an information obtaining unit, a message adding unit, and a request sending unit. The client includes a request receiving unit and a judging and connecting unit. Hence, the setting up of push sessions based on the SIP is implemented. | 10-20-2011 |
20110265122 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND SENDING MEDIA, USER EQUIPMENT, AND SERVICE GUIDE SERVER - A method for receiving and sending media, a user equipment (UE), and a service guide (SG) server are disclosed in the present invention. The method includes: receiving an SG that includes first access information, access association information, and second access information; receiving media corresponding to the first access information, where the media corresponding to the first access information supports a service or content; and when switching is performed, determining the second access information according to the access association information, and accessing media corresponding to the second access information, where the media corresponding to the second access information also supports the service or content. With the embodiments of the present invention, the smooth transition of the service or content can be ensured when bearer resources are switched, thus the user experience is enhanced. | 10-27-2011 |
20120033605 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING A PUSH MESSAGE - In the field of wireless communications technologies, a method, a device and a system for transmitting a push message are provided, which solve the technical problem that a push message may not be transmitted in an appropriate Point To Multipoint (PTM) bearer mode in the prior art. The method includes: determining at least one mode in PTM bearer modes for a received push message; adapting respectively, for the push message, a transmission bearer type corresponding to the at least one mode; and transmitting the adapted push message to a terminal through a PTM bearer network corresponding to the transmission bearer type. | 02-09-2012 |
20120047275 | NETWORK ACCESS METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A network access method, a terminal device, a server, and a communication system are provided. The method includes: querying corresponding parameters of connection according to a service type; and accessing a network by using the queried parameters of connection. Compared with the prior art in which the network is accessed by attempting to access one by one, the technical solution directly acquires correct parameters of connection for accessing the network without establishing a large number of redundant connection attempts, thereby greatly improving network access efficiency, reducing access time, decreasing a system load and network burden, and improving user experience. | 02-23-2012 |
20120066330 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND SERVER FOR PROCESSING POINT TO MULTIPOINT PUSH MESSAGE - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system and a server for processing a Point to Multipoint (PTM) Push message. The method includes: receiving a Push message, in which the Push message includes indication information and push content; mapping address information of target terminals that correspond to the indication information; and sending, according to the address information of the target terminals, the push content to the target terminals that correspond to the indication information. In the embodiments of the present invention, the Push message is sent, according to the indication information included in the received Push message, to the target terminals that correspond to the indication information, and it is unnecessary to carry a large amount of the address information of the target terminals in the Push message, thereby saving network resources. | 03-15-2012 |
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20120167138 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND SENDING MEDIA, USER EQUIPMENT, AND SERVICE GUIDE SERVER - A method for receiving and sending media, a user equipment (UE), and a service guide (SG) server are disclosed in the present invention. The method includes: receiving an SG that includes first access information, access association information, and second access information; receiving media corresponding to the first access information, where the media corresponding to the first access information supports a service or content; and when switching is performed, determining the second access information according to the access association information, and accessing media corresponding to the second access information, where the media corresponding to the second access information also supports the service or content. With the embodiments of the present invention, the smooth transition of the service or content can be ensured when bearer resources are switched, thus the user experience is enhanced. | 06-28-2012 |
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20100082392 | MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION FOR ALLOCATION OF ADVERTISING RESOURCES - An advertising distribution system mediates and distributes advertising opportunities, especially insertions of ads on web pages, according to advertisers' representative targeting profiles. The number and characteristics of future ad impressions is forecast. A portion is allocated to guaranteed-delivery advertiser contracts and the remainder is offered on a spot market. A division between guaranteed and spot market allocations is sought to maximize revenue, taking into account a value associated with meeting the advertisers' representative profiles. The value of representativeness can be inferred from the marginal revenue of a spot market sale, and optionally weighted. The guaranteed and spot market revenues for all possible efficient allocations produces a curve. An operating point on the curve is determined by selecting a weighting factor or selecting a proportion of total revenue that shall be attributable to representativeness. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082425 | SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING ADVERTISING INVENTORY IN A UNIFIED MARKETPLACE - An advertisement impression distribution system includes a data processing system operable to generate an allocation plan for serving advertisement impressions. The allocation plan allocates a first portion of advertisement impressions to satisfy guaranteed demand and a second portion of advertisement impressions to satisfy non-guaranteed demand. The data processing system includes an optimizer, the optimizer to establish a relationship between the first portion of advertisement impressions and the second portion of advertisement impressions, the relationship defining a range of possible proportions of allocation of the first portion of advertisement impressions and the second portion of advertisement impressions. The optimizer generates an indicia in accordance with maximizing guaranteed demand fairness or representativeness, maximizing non-guaranteed revenue, and minimizing under-delivery penalties, where the indicia indentifies a determined proportion of the first portion of advertisement impressions to serve and a determined proportion of the second portion of advertisement impressions to serve. The data processing system outputs the allocation plan including the indicia to control serving of the advertisement impressions in the determined proportions. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082442 | DEMAND FORECASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS - A computer implemented system includes a computer readable storage medium which includes historical demand data for a plurality of advertising inventories, and a processor connected to the computer readable storage medium. The processor is configured for generating a first demand forecast for a first predetermined period of time and a second demand forecast for a second predetermined period of time. The processor is configured for adjusting the first demand forecast by removing an existing demand for each of the plurality of advertising inventories, and for generating a net forecasting demand for each of the plurality of inventories for a third predetermined period of time by combining the second demand forecast and an adjusted first demand forecast. The third predetermined period of time is based on the first and second predetermined periods. | 04-01-2010 |
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20100114696 | METHOD OF PROGRAMMED ALLOCATION OF ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONFORMANCE WITH GOALS - An advertising server allocates advertising impressions to meet advertisers' demands for opportunities to run advertising, for example ad content inserted into Web pages for payment. Supplies of advertising impressions are paired by their characteristics with demands that the supplies could meet. For paired eligible supplies and demands, an ideal allocation is determined, between zero and a maximum. The ideal allocations for all pairs are the coordinates of a utopia point in multidimensional space, although meeting all these ideals is likely to be impossible because of practical constraints. Using optional weighting, candidate allocations are tested or compared. Each candidate allocation produces coordinates in the multidimensional space. The candidate allocations are compared, based on the relative proximity of their coordinates to the potentially-impossible utopia point in multidimensional space. A ranking is stored or the selected allocation is executed, under control of a programmed processor. | 05-06-2010 |
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