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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 |
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 |
20120254070 | FAIR VALUE MODEL BASED SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VALUING FOREIGN-BASED SECURITIES IN A MUTUAL FUND - A system for determining fair value prices of financial securities of international markets includes 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 producing each calculated return factor coefficient in a data stream. | 10-04-2012 |
20130282615 | FAIR VALUE MODEL BASED SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VALUING FOREIGN-BASED SECURITIES IN A MUTUAL FUND - A system for determining fair value prices of financial securities of international markets includes 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 producing each calculated return factor coefficient in a data stream. | 10-24-2013 |
20140337197 | FAIR VALUE MODEL BASED SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VALUING FOREIGN-BASED SECURITIES IN A MUTUAL FUND - A system for determining fair value prices of financial securities of international markets includes 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 producing each calculated return factor coefficient in a data stream. | 11-13-2014 |
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20100131654 | PLATFORM FOR ENABLING TERMINAL SERVICES VIRTUALIZATION - Disclosed are techniques for providing a platform and application program interface (API) that leverages a terminal services session broker infrastructure to support third party plug-in applications. In a typical scenario, when a user requests for a connection to access third party plug-in applications, the application program interface may interact with the session broker process to identify sessions or suitable servers to which the user can be connected. The user may access the third party plug-in applications through the identified sessions or suitable servers. | 05-27-2010 |
20110153838 | SESSION MONITORING OF VIRTUAL DESKTOPS IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE FARM - Disclosed are techniques for determining the status of virtual machine sessions on a computing device for a user by reading from a memory location written to by a program executing within a virtual machine. The memory location is preferably a registry key that contains the status of a remote user session operating on a guest operating system operational on the virtual machine, the virtual machine executing in a virtual environment comprising a plurality of virtual machines operating on a computing device. | 06-23-2011 |
20130181999 | PARA-VIRTUALIZED DOMAIN, HULL, AND GEOMETRY SHADERS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing domain, hull, and geometry shaders in a para-virtualized environment. As such, a guest application executing in a child partition is enabled use a programmable GPU pipeline of a physical GPU. A vGPU (executing in the child partition) is presented to the guest application. The vGPU exposes DDIs of a rendering framework. The DDIs enable the guest application to send graphics commands to the vGPU, including commands for utilizing a domain shader, a hull shader, and/or a geometric shader at a physical GPU. A render component (executing within the root partition) receives physical GPU-specific commands from the vGPU, including commands for using the domain shader, the hull shader, and/or the geometric shader. The render component schedules the physical GPU-specific command(s) for execution at the physical GPU. | 07-18-2013 |
20150150007 | SESSION MONITORING OF VIRTUAL DESKTOPS IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE FARM - Disclosed are techniques for determining the status of virtual machine sessions on a computing device for a user by reading from a memory location written to by a program executing within a virtual machine. The memory location is preferably a registry key that contains the status of a remote user session operating on a guest operating system operational on the virtual machine, the virtual machine executing in a virtual environment comprising a plurality of virtual machines operating on a computing device. | 05-28-2015 |
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20080247579 | System and Method For Designing Hearing Aid Components With A Flexible Cover - A method and appertaining system for implementing the method is provided for designing hearing aids having flexible parts. Three-dimensional data is provided that is related to both a soft part and a hard part of a hearing aid component into a computer-based system. Additionally, information is entered related to material characteristics for both the soft part and the hard part of the component. A component within the hearing aid shell is placed and moved in a model generated by the system. Forces, stresses, and/or amount of deformation for parts of the component based on the location of the component and at least one of another component and the shell are calculated, and the three-dimensional data model of the shell is revised based upon the calculated degree of deformation, forces, and/or stresses. | 10-09-2008 |
20080253597 | Computerized Automated Wax Design and Modeling for Hearing Instruments - A method and appertaining system provide for automatically adding a wax guard to a hearing aid shell impression. The location of a canal, tip of the canal, and central line of the impression are automatically identified in a digital 3D representation of a hearing aid shell impression. A first wax guard plane is determined at a predefined flip distance from the canal tip along the central line, and a second wax guard plane is determined at a predefined canal tip offset distance from the canal tip along the central line. A size and position for a feature of the wax guard is calculated based on predefined parameters, and the wax guard is constructed utilizing the calculated side and position. The type of wax guard can be a bell bore design, an open design, a Philip design, or a flip design. | 10-16-2008 |
20090063184 | Method For Automatic Project File Reconstruction and Batch Processor - A method and appertaining system for performing the method is provided in which the modeling and detailing of a hearing aid shell can be done at a remote site, while the work order handling and the actual manufacture are performed at a local site without the need to transmit large STL files from the remote site to the local site. The local site is able to construct an STL file from data defining the original undetailed impression and a project file containing the detailing algorithms from the remote site. The hearing aid shell may then be manufactured from the STL file. | 03-05-2009 |
20090097682 | Computerized rule based binaural modeling system for the hearing aid design - The invention relates to a method for implementing an automated hearing aid modeling system that is a computerized rule-based binaural modeling system which includes performing a hearing-aid class dependent processing on the hearing aid shell design. Features of the hearing aid shell are recognized and attributes associated with these features are stored. A rule-based product handling for the shell model is used that is determined based on a determined shell type. Global and local offsets are performed on data associated with the shell model, as is binaural processing to augmented detailing and modeling protocols used on the shell model. The hearing aid is created based on the shell model processed according to the preceding steps. An appertaining system for implementing the method is also provided. | 04-16-2009 |
20090245559 | Method for Adaptive Construction of a Small CIC Hearing Instrument - A small hearing aid is provided which fits completely in an ear canal of a user wherein a shell as an outer housing of the hearing aid is shaped to closely surround components of the hearing aid to provide a gap between the hearing canal inner walls and the shell to allow flow of air when the hearing aid is mounted in the ear by a mounting element connected to the shell. The mounting element is provided with at least one aperture to allow the air flow. In a fabricating method, an image of the shell is shrunk to closely surround the hearing aid components while maintaining a shape of the ear canal to assure a custom fit. | 10-01-2009 |
20100286964 | Method of Generating an Optimized Venting Channel in a Hearing Instrument - A computerized method is provided for designing a vent in a hearing aid housing shell based on an image of a patient's ear canal impression, and wherein a program is provided on a computer-readable medium. With the program, an image of a starter housing shell based on the image of the patient's ear canal impression is created which is longer than a final version of the housing shell to be created. A starter vent running from an inner canal end near the patient's ear drum to an outer end of the starter housing shell is placed inside the shell. Components are then placed substantially as deep as possible inside the starter shell but lying outside of the starter vent. Portions of the starter shell lying beyond where a faceplate is to be mounted are removed and the faceplate is mounted. The starter vent is then grown larger so that it fills substantially all space inside the shell without interfering with the components. | 11-11-2010 |
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20080300824 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A LOCATION FOR MARKING PLACEMENT - A system and associated method for selecting or creating an area which meets meet a set of marking criteria, for example, corresponding to a minimum surface area; a maximum slope angle; and a minimum deviation from a specified height. A marking station is directed to mark the selected area that meets the marking criteria. | 12-04-2008 |
20090037011 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INCREASING EFFICIENCY IN RAPID PROTOTYPING PROCESSES - A system and methods for batch sorting objects and mapping the objects on a tray having a fixed dimension along an x-axis and a fixed dimension along a y-axis. Certain aspects of the present embodiments include (a) storing the objects in a queue; (b) sorting the objects in the queue according to a dimension of the objects; (c) mapping the objects sequentially into a first column of a plurality of columns on the tray until the first column is filled; (d) mapping the objects into a subsequent column until the subsequent column is filled; (e) repeating step (d) until only a last column in the plurality of columns remains to be filled, or until no more objects remain in the queue; and (f) mapping the objects into the last column in accordance with a column organization plan. In certain embodiments, at least one of the columns, and not necessarily the last column, includes objects mapped in accordance with a column organization plan. | 02-05-2009 |
20110245952 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INCREASING EFFICIENCY IN RAPID PROTOTYPING PROCESSES - A system and methods for batch sorting objects and mapping the objects on a tray having a fixed dimension along an x-axis and a fixed dimension along a y-axis. Certain aspects of the present embodiments include (a) storing the objects in a queue; (b) sorting the objects in the queue according to a dimension of the objects; (c) mapping the objects sequentially into a first column of a plurality of columns on the tray until the first column is filled; (d) mapping the objects into a subsequent column until the subsequent column is filled; (e) repeating step (d) until only a last column in the plurality of columns remains to be filled, or until no more objects remain in the queue; and (f) mapping the objects into the last column in accordance with a column organization plan. In certain embodiments, at least one of the columns, and not necessarily the last column, includes objects mapped in accordance with a column organization plan. | 10-06-2011 |
20130089828 | AUTOMATIC PLACEMENT OF PRECISION CUTS - An orthodontic positioning device and methods for making an orthodontic positioning device including a first patient removable orthodontic tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and apply a resilient positioning force to a patient's teeth provided in one of an upper jaw and a lower jaw. The first appliance includes a hook configured to receive an orthodontic elastic band. The orthodontic positioning device also includes a second patient removable orthodontic tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and apply a resilient positioning force to a patient's teeth provided in the other of the upper jaw and the lower jaw. The second appliance includes a cutout operable to expose an orthodontic elastic band receiving member. | 04-11-2013 |
20130209952 | ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES THAT ACCOMMODATE INCREMENTAL AND CONTINUOUS TOOTH MOVEMENT, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An orthodontic appliance including a shell aligner having a portion accommodating movement of a patient's bracketed teeth between a first position and the second position as elicited by force from an orthodontic braces appliance worn by the patient, related systems and methods. | 08-15-2013 |
20130231899 | INTERPROXIMAL REDUCTION PLANNING - The present disclosure includes computing device related, systems, and methods for IPR planning as described herein. One method includes identifying a first tooth and a second tooth in a digital dental model with an overlap in a target final position in a treatment plan and identifying a reference line on each of the first tooth and the second tooth; revising the treatment plan wherein a position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth is determined in which the reference line of each of the first tooth and the second tooth are aligned and the first tooth and second tooth are not overlapping; and prescribing IPR based on the determined position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth. | 09-05-2013 |
20130231900 | DETERMINING A DENTAL TREATMENT DIFFICULTY - Embodiments for determining a dental treatment difficulty are described herein. One method embodiment includes receiving an initial and subsequent position of each of a first tooth and a second tooth and calculating a change in position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth. The method embodiment can also include projecting the changes in position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth onto a reference line and calculating a change in position on the reference line for the first tooth and the second tooth. The method embodiment can further include determining the dental treatment difficulty based on the changes in position on the reference line. | 09-05-2013 |
20130317800 | ADJUSTMENT OF TOOTH POSITION IN A VIRTUAL DENTAL MODEL - The present disclosure provides computing device implemented methods, computing device readable media, and systems for adjustment of tooth position in a virtual dental model. Virtual dental modeling can include detecting space and/or collision between posterior teeth of an upper jaw and posterior teeth of a lower jaw in a virtual dental model that has been set in a preliminary target position. An energy function can be defined including the space and/or collision, tooth root movement, and align points. Weights can be assigned for each variable in the energy function. A position of the posterior teeth of the upper jaw and the posterior teeth of the lower jaw can be adjusted in six degrees of freedom to minimize the energy function. The detection, definition, assignment, and adjustment can be repeated until the energy function converges. The weights can be adjusted to reduce the space and/or collision. | 11-28-2013 |
20140120490 | AUTOMATIC PLACEMENT OF PRECISION CUTS - An orthodontic positioning device and methods for making an orthodontic positioning device including a first patient removable orthodontic tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and apply a resilient positioning force to a patient's teeth provided in one of an upper jaw and a lower jaw. The first appliance includes a hook configured to receive an orthodontic elastic band. The orthodontic positioning device also includes a second patient removable orthodontic tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and apply a resilient positioning force to a patient's teeth provided in the other of the upper jaw and the lower jaw. The second appliance includes a cutout operable to expose an orthodontic elastic band receiving member. | 05-01-2014 |
20150238282 | ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES THAT ACCOMMODATE INCREMENTAL AND CONTINUOUS TOOTH MOVEMENT, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An orthodontic appliance including a shell aligner having a portion accommodating movement of a patient's bracketed teeth between a first position and the second position as elicited by force from an orthodontic braces appliance worn by the patient, related systems and methods. | 08-27-2015 |
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20080215176 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED HIGH SCALE FABRICATION OF CUSTOM ITEMS - Method and system for providing volume manufacturing of customizable items including receiving a data package including a plurality of manufacturing parameters, each of the plurality of manufacturing parameters associated with a unique item, verifying the received data package, and implementing a manufacturing process associated with the received data package is provided. | 09-04-2008 |
20100173266 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED GENERATING OF A CUTTING CURVE ON A SURFACE - In accordance with various aspects of the present invention, a system and method for automated generating of a cutting curve on a surface is provided. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method for automated generating of a cutting curve on a gingival surface to facilitate cutting of an aligner material comprises the defining of initial gingival curves along the line around a tooth (LAT) on a patient's jaw, including within an interproximal area between teeth. The initial gingival curves are replaced with a modified, dynamic cutting curve comprising an offset adjustment configured to minimize weakening of a region of the aligner material within the interproximal area. This process for generating a modified, dynamic cutting curve within an interproximal area can be suitably applied or continued for each of other the teeth and interproximal areas between those teeth to define a complete dynamic cutting curve. The resulting complete dynamic cutting curve can then be output for conversion into machine executable code to facilitate cutting of the aligner material. | 07-08-2010 |
20110213483 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED HIGH SCALE FABRICATION OF CUSTOM ITEMS - Method and system for providing volume manufacturing of customizable items including receiving a data package including a plurality of manufacturing parameters, each of the plurality of manufacturing parameters associated with a unique item, verifying the received data package, and implementing a manufacturing process associated with the received data package is provided. | 09-01-2011 |
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20130339333 | PROVIDING A MODIFIED CONTENT ITEM TO A USER - Methods and systems for generating a content item associated with search results and, based on a subsequent return to the search results, providing the content item in a modified manner. | 12-19-2013 |
20140188989 | EXCHANGING CONTENT ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - A system and method are provided that deliver content information to devices according to gestures input into a user device. The method includes detecting the presence and the location of a plurality of target devices that are in proximity to a user device. An extended gesture associated with the source device may be detected and a direction associated with the extended gesture may be determined by a processor. Based on the direction of the extended gesture, a destination device may be selected from the plurality of target devices. The source device and the destination device may be identified, and the delivery of content information to the destination device may be performed. | 07-03-2014 |
20150193061 | USER'S COMPUTING EXPERIENCE BASED ON THE USER'S COMPUTING ACTIVITY - Systems and methods for improving a user's computing experience based on the user's computing activity are provided. In some aspects, a method includes receiving an indication of a first computing activity by a user on a computing device and receiving an indication of a second computing activity by the user on the computing device. The method also includes determining a point with respect to the first computing activity that corresponds to a change in an attention of the user from the first computing activity to the second computing activity. The method also includes storing a marker in a memory based on the determined point. The marker is configured to be accessed to resume the first computing activity at the point corresponding to the change in the user's attention from the first computing activity to the second computing activity. | 07-09-2015 |
20150205767 | LINK APPEARANCE FORMATTING BASED ON TARGET CONTENT - Methods for formatting an appearance of a link based on linked content are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request to load, for display, a document including a link to another document, and receiving an identifier of at least one of a geographic region associated with the other document, a language associated with the other document, an age appropriateness of the other document, interactions with the other document, whether content of the other document is intended to disrupt computer operation, a time associated with the other document, and a user's interest profile for content identified in the other document. The method also includes formatting an appearance of the link to the other document based on the identifier. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. | 07-23-2015 |
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20140129651 | HUMAN-ASSISTED CHAT INFORMATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a technology for providing information to users of a chat information system. The chat information system may receive an information request from a user. The information request may be processed to determine its subject area and forwarded to information sources or external communication services, such as social networks, forums, and the like. Answers received from the information sources and external communication services may be validated and selected based on user feedbacks and ratings. The selected answers may be then delivered to the users of the chat information system. After receiving the answers, the user may evaluate them to be further stored for future use by the chat information system. | 05-08-2014 |
20150254061 | METHOD FOR USER TRAINING OF INFORMATION DIALOGUE SYSTEM - Provided is a method for user training of an information dialogue system. The method may include activating a user input subsystem, receiving a training request entered by the user, converting the training request into text by the user input subsystem, sending the text of the training request obtained as a result of the conversion to a dialogue module, processing the text of the training request by the dialogue module, forming a response to the training request by the dialogue module, and sending the response to the training request to the user. The response to the training request may be formed in a form of one or more of the following: a voice cue, a text, and an action performed by the information dialogue system. | 09-10-2015 |
20150255089 | METHOD FOR USER COMMUNICATION WITH INFORMATION DIALOGUE SYSTEM - Provided is a method for user communications with an information dialogue system, which may be used for organizing user interactions with the information dialogue system based on a natural language. The method may include activating a user input subsystem in response to a user entering a request; receiving and converting the request of the user into text by the user input subsystem; sending the text obtained as a result of the conversion of the request to a dialogue module; processing, by the dialogue module, the text; forming, by the dialogue module, the response to the request; sending the response to the user; and displaying and/or reproducing the formed response, where, after the displaying and/or the reproducing of the formed response, the user input subsystem is automatically activated upon entering a further request or a clarification request by the user. | 09-10-2015 |
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20120253972 | ELECTRONIC SHARED SHOPPING LIST MANAGEMENT - Disclosed are shared shopping systems and techniques based on social graph information and spanning multiple merchant providers. A device can include a component for implementing a shopping portal and include an access security module. Social graph information for use in connection with any of the embodiments described herein can come from internal sources or external sources. In this regard, the object information respecting items selected by users represented by a given user social graph can be stored in storage. The access security module can be configured to categorize the object information according to a set of predetermined criteria and allow access to the object information by others represented in a social graph for the user that have received authorization to access the object information. | 10-04-2012 |
20120278127 | GENERATING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON DYNAMIC PRODUCT CONTEXT DATA AND/OR SOCIAL ACTIVITY DATA RELATED TO A PRODUCT - Systems and methods are described for generating online product recommendations. A plurality of data objects representative of a plurality of items for user consumption from an online merchant are stored at a computing device. A method then comprises, registering a device associated with a user with the online merchant; and in response to registering the device: associating the device with at least one other device registered with the online merchant associated with an other user in response to selection of the at least one other device by the device, monitoring a first social activity of the at least one other device, wherein the first social activity includes a first activity related to an interaction of the at least one other device with at least one of the plurality of data objects, and collecting and storing first social activity data related to the first social activity of the at least one other device. | 11-01-2012 |
20120311624 | GENERATING, EDITING, AND SHARING MOVIE QUOTES - Described herein are systems, methods, and articles of manufacture that facilitate creation, editing, and sharing of video quotes. A video quote can be created based on user input. For example, the video quote can be created based on a time range selected by a user. The video quote can also include comments from the user. In order to create the video quote, the user can be authenticated and/or permissions of the user related to viewing, editing and/or sharing of the video can be verified. If permissions are verified, the user can edit the content of the video quote, for example, by changing the time range and/or including different comments. The video quote can be shared, for example, on a social network and/or via e-mail. | 12-06-2012 |
20130006803 | ITEM SOURCE OF ORIGIN STAMP - Disclosed are electronic systems and techniques for implementing lists that include source of origin information for items added to the lists. A portal can include a component that enables items to be added to lists associated with the portal from a variety of sources, such as social networks, other portals, advertisements, search engines, other users, etc. In this regard, the items can be added to a list with references to the portal, instead of the source of origin, and information relating to the source of origin can be maintained to assist users in future prioritizations of items included in the list. | 01-03-2013 |
20140172689 | FUNGIBLE MONETIZATION OF MEDIA - Flexible managing and monetizing of multimedia content are applied in a distribution network. Credit amounts to charge to accounts are determined. Content servers can determine alter access to and ownership of services and/or multimedia content. Services and content can be purchased and/or altered during multimedia playback. | 06-19-2014 |
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20140122695 | DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR NETWORK CONTENT DELIVERY - Providing for dynamic allocation of network resources for delivery of network content is described herein. By way of example, network resources can be correlated with real-time network conditions, and monitoring of the network conditions can be employed to track availability of subsets of network resources. Where a subset of network resources allocated to support a particular application is available, the subset of resources can be allocated to one or more client devices, on demand. Where insufficient resource availability exists, resources can be freed up from other subsets of network resources to bolster availability of requested resources to support an application, or a demand for resources can be rejected. Billing for network resources can be in part or in total based on resources consumed, among other dynamic factors, in addition to or in lieu of static factors. | 05-01-2014 |
20140372267 | OFFER BASED PROVISION OF FEE BASED NETWORK ACCESS - Offer based provision of fee based network access is presented herein. An access component can provide a complementary access of first content of a network to a device without a per-access fee to a user account associated with the device. A monitor component can receive, from the device, a request for an alternate access of second content of the network that is different from the first content. The access component, based on a characteristic associated with the network determined to satisfy a defined condition with respect to the alternate access, can send an offer directed to the device for purchase of the alternate access with the per-access fee to the user account. | 12-18-2014 |
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20110167038 | Dispatching Conflicting Data Changes - A method for distributing one or more conflicting data changes. The method includes extracting data changes from the source site log, and applying the data changes to the destination site. The method then includes identifying one or more constraints for each data change and generating a hash value for each identified constraint. The method then dispatches the data changes into a plurality of streams based on the hash values. The hash values are used to identify conflicting data changes and determine how the data changes should be sent through the plurality of streams such that data changes are applied in parallel in the plurality of streams without violating any causal consistency constraints. The method then includes committing data changes in the plurality of streams to the destination site in a single transaction, creating a consistent transactional view. | 07-07-2011 |
20110231403 | SCALABLE INDEX BUILD TECHNIQUES FOR COLUMN STORES - Architecture that includes an index creation algorithm that utilizes available resources and dynamically adjusts to successfully scale with increased resources and be able to do so for any data distribution. The resources can be processing resources, memory, and/or input/output, for example. A finer level of granularity, called a segment, is utilized to process tuples in a partition while creating an index. The segment also aligns with compression techniques for the index. By choosing an appropriate size for a segment and using load balancing the overall time for index creation can be reduced. Each segment can then be processed by a single thread thereby limiting segment skew. Skew is further limited by breaking down the work done by a thread into parallelizable stages. | 09-22-2011 |
20110282850 | Concurrently Accessing Data - A database management system having a database component, which includes a lock manager, and a filesystem component. The filesystem component is configured to: generate a mapping between one or more filesystem access modes, one or more filesystem sharing modes and one or more database locks, receive a request from a filesystem stack to perform one or more actions on data in a database, identify a filesystem access mode and a filesystem share mode of the request, determine which one of the database locks corresponds to the filesystem access mode and the filesystem share mode of the request based on the mapping, and receive a notification lock on the data from the lock manager when no other database locks conflict with the notification lock, wherein the notification lock corresponds to the one of the database locks. After receiving the notification lock on the data, the lock manager is configured to send a notification to the filesystem component when a subsequent request from a database stack includes accessing the data. | 11-17-2011 |
20150193485 | SCALABLE INDEX BUILD TECHNIQUES FOR COLUMN STORES - Architecture that includes an index creation algorithm that utilizes available resources and dynamically adjusts to successfully scale with increased resources and be able to do so for any data distribution. The resources can be processing resources, memory, and/or input/output, for example. A finer level of granularity, called a segment, is utilized to process tuples in a partition while creating an index. The segment also aligns with compression techniques for the index. By choosing an appropriate size for a segment and using load balancing the overall time for index creation can be reduced. Each segment can then be processed by a single thread thereby limiting segment skew. Skew is further limited by breaking down the work done by a thread into parallelizable stages. | 07-09-2015 |
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20090218807 | QUICK-RELEASE FASTENER - A quick-release fastener for connecting automobile pipes includes, but is not limited to a base body having a partially circular cross-section. At least one first rib projects radially inward from the base body to form an anti-rotation element. Furthermore, at least one second rib projects radially inward from the base body to form an anti-rotation element, and the first rib is arranged axially at a distance from the second rib. Due to the quick-release fastener, a fast and simple connection of automobile pipes is possible even with confined installation space. | 09-03-2009 |
20110127730 | SEAL CONFIGURATION FOR THE MOTOR VEHICLE FRONT WALL - A seal configuration is provided for sealing an opening of a motor vehicle front wall provided for the passage of heating and/or air-conditioning pipes, such as heating and/or air-conditioning pipes, having a two-component seal body insertable into the opening, which has an outer peripheral edge component made of a first seal material and an inner seal component made of a second seal material. The first and the second seal materials have different moduli of elasticity and/or different acoustic damping properties. | 06-02-2011 |
20110132028 | TUBULAR HEAT EXCHANGER FOR MOTOR VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONERS - A tubular heat exchanger is provided for a motor vehicle air conditioner with an inner tube through which a fluid or gas can flow and an outer tube radially enclosing the inner tube subject to the formation of an intermediate space through which a flow can flow. The inner tube in this case includes, but is not limited to a quantity of stampings arranged spaced from one another and with their longitudinal extension at least partially extending in axial direction of the inner tube. | 06-09-2011 |
20110139415 | CONNECTION DEVICE FOR A COAXIAL TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER - A connection device of a double-walled heat exchanger tube is provided, in particular for the heat exchanger of a motor vehicle air conditioning system. The heat exchanger tube has an outer tube and an inner tube that runs coaxially inside the outer tube spaced radially apart from it. The connection device further has a fitting for accommodating radially overlapping end sections of the inner and outer tube. The outer and inner tubes according to the invention are at least sectionally joined together without soldering in the area of the fitting, and with the fitting. | 06-16-2011 |
20110219814 | TUBULAR HEAT EXCHANGER FOR MOTOR VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONERS - A tubular heat exchanger is provided for a motor vehicle air conditioner with an inner tube through which a fluid or gas can flow and an outer tube radially enclosing the inner tube subject to the formation of an intermediate space through which a flow can flow. The inner tube and the outer tube are at least radially fixed to each other by means of a number of stampings radially worked into the outer tube. | 09-15-2011 |
20120036886 | INTERNAL HEAT EXCHANGER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM - A heat exchanger is provided for a motor vehicle air-conditioning system with an outer tube through which a fluid and/or a gas can flow and at least one inner tube through which a fluid and/or gas can flow, which at least in sections and subject to the formation of an intermediate space through which a flow can flow runs within the outer tube and in a first region located within the outer tube branches off into at least two heat exchanger tubes. | 02-16-2012 |
20120056046 | FASTENING DEVICE HAVING A COMPENSATING RAIL FOR TOLERANCE COMPENSATION - A fastening device for fixing lines in the engine compartment of a motor vehicle, in particular lines for the air conditioner. Fastening recesses are provided in the engine compartment, on which the fastening device can be anchored. The fastening device has a clip base for this purpose. A clip head is used for fastening the fastening device to the line. At least one of the fastening clips is situated so it is longitudinally movable on the compensating rail, so that the fastening device can be adapted to the installation situation. | 03-08-2012 |
20120217741 | PIPE-HOSE ARRANGEMENT - A pipe-hose arrangement is provided having a pipe, a hose having a hose section facing toward the pipe that overlaps a pipe section facing toward the hose, which has a radial shoulder having an external diameter. A sleeve is also provided that has a sleeve, which at least partially overlaps the hose section on a side of the radial shoulder, which is axially opposite to a front side of the pipe facing toward the hose, and has a minimum internal diameter. The minimum diameter is smaller than the external diameter of the radial shoulder plus a wall thickness of the non-deformed hose section. | 08-30-2012 |
20120273298 | SILENCERS FOR AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS - Silencers for air conditioning systems are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the silencer comprises a cylindrical silencer wall having a flow axis, a first channel disposed within the cylindrical silencer wall, and a second channel disposed within the cylindrical silencer wall. The second channel communicates with the first channel in a branch-off region and a connection region. A flow cross-section of the first channel and second channel changes in a complementary manner along the flow axis. | 11-01-2012 |
20120279242 | CONTROLLABLE HEAT EXCHANGER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle air conditioning system is provided. The heat exchanger includes an inner tube through which a heat exchanger medium can flow, an outer tube that at least regionally envelops the inner tube forming an intermediate space, and a regulating unit fluidically connected to the intermediate space. The regulating unit is configured to alter the flow resistance of the intermediate space as a function of the temperature of a heat exchanger medium that flows through the intermediate space. | 11-08-2012 |
20120279690 | FLEXIBLY ADJUSTABLE HEAT EXCHANGER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle air conditioning system is provided. The heat exchanger includes an inner tube through which a heat exchanger medium can flow and a flexible outer tube that at least regionally envelops the inner tube with the formation of a flow-through intermediate space. The inner tube exhibits a tubular section that enables a change in length and/or direction of the inner tube and runs inclined relative to the longitudinal direction of the outer tube. | 11-08-2012 |
20120279691 | HEAT EXCHANGER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle air conditioning system is provided. The heat exchanger includes an inner tube configured to carry a heat exchanger medium and an outer tube that at least regionally envelops the inner tube with an intermediate space between the inner tube and the outer tube. A separating web extends between the inner tube and the outer tube and is configured to divide the intermediate space into at least two flow channels. In an axial section of the inner tube and the outer tube, the separating web fluidically couples the flow channels with each other as viewed in a circumferential direction of the inner tube. | 11-08-2012 |
20130134707 | PIPE COUPLING FOR THE FLUID-TIGHT ATTACHMENT OF COMPONENTS IN AN AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a pipe coupling for joining a pipe arranged in a pipe section with a line formed in a line section in a fluid-carrying manner, wherein a fluid-tight seal is established for the pipe coupling by way of a sealing washer, wherein the sealing washer is comprised of a sealing ring and a support ring, wherein the sealing ring is made out of an elastic material and situated in a sealing space, which extends in a radial direction from an outer surface of the pipe section up to the support ring, and in an axial direction from a first contact surface that runs orthogonal to the outer surface up to a second contact surface ( | 05-30-2013 |
20130139541 | HEAT EXCHANGER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle air conditioning system is provided. The heat exchanger includes at least one inner tube and an outer tube, which at least regionally envelops an inner tube to form a gap through which a heat exchanger medium can flow. The inner tube can include two at least regionally wound and nested tube sections. | 06-06-2013 |
20130207384 | SOLDERLESS HOSE CONNECTION FOR A LINE SECTION OF AN AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - A method for manufacturing a connection between a hose and coaxial line section is provided. The method includes providing an outer pipe, inserting an inner pipe along with a hose situated at least partially on an outer periphery of the inner pipe inside the outer pipe, and deforming the outer pipe, the inner pipe or both so that the hose becomes clamped between the inner pipe and outer pipe. A coaxial line section for a refrigerant circuit of a motor vehicle also is provided. | 08-15-2013 |
20140326438 | INTERNAL HEAT EXCHANGER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle air-conditioning system is disclosed having an inner tube and with an outer tube. The outer tube at least partially encloses the inner tube in the longitudinal direction of the tube and form an intermediate space through which a heat exchanger medium can flow. Radially extending web at least partially divided the intermediate space into multiple flow channels between the inner tube and the outer tube. The multiple flow channels open in the longitudinal direction into a distributor or collector space formed through a radial tapering of the inner tube. | 11-06-2014 |
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