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20140023785 | Method For Producing Nickel-Containing Films - Provided are precursors and methods of using same to deposit film consisting essentially of nickel. Certain methods comprise providing a substrate surface; exposing the substrate surface to a vapor comprising a precursor having a structure represented by formula (I): | 01-23-2014 |
20140030436 | Methods for Producing Nickel-Containing Films - Provided are precursors and methods of using same to deposit film consisting essentially of nickel. Certain methods comprise providing a substrate surface; exposing the substrate surface to a vapor comprising a precursor having a structure represented, without limitation to specific orientation, by: | 01-30-2014 |
20140242806 | Metal Amide Deposition Precursors And Their Stabilization With An Inert Ampoule Liner - Described are methods and apparatuses for the stabilization of precursors, which can be used for the deposition of manganese-containing films. Certain methods and apparatus relate to lined ampoules and/or 2-electron donor ligands. | 08-28-2014 |
20140255606 | Methods For Depositing Films Comprising Cobalt And Cobalt Nitrides - Described are cobalt-containing films, as well as methods for providing the cobalt-containing films. Certain methods pertain to exposing a substrate surface to a precursor and a co-reactant to provide a cobalt-containing film, the first precursor having a structure represented by: | 09-11-2014 |
20160032455 | HIGH THROUGH-PUT AND LOW TEMPERATURE ALD COPPER DEPOSITION AND INTEGRATION - Methods of depositing a metal layer utilizing organometallic compounds. A substrate surface is exposed to a gaseous organometallic metal precursor and an organometallic metal reactant to form a metal layer (e.g., a copper layer) on the substrate. | 02-04-2016 |
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20110173126 | CONTENT SECURITY FOR REAL-TIME BIDDING - A real-time-bidding process that includes security mechanisms that limits access to various aspects of the bidding process including communications between bidders, the user browser, and the auctioneer, and the content of bids received and utilized by the user browser. | 07-14-2011 |
20120030034 | MANAGING BIDS IN A REAL-TIME AUCTION FOR ADVERTISEMENTS - A method and system conduct an auction for advertising across multiple markets. A first market conducts a first auction for a first advertising impression. A first bid is selected as the auction winner and a ratio is computed as the first bid plus a spread to the second highest bid. The price to be paid is the lower of the first bid or the first bid multiplied by the ratio. The first bid, second bid, and spread are transmitted to a second market for a second advertising impression auction. The second market respects the rules of the first market's auction where such that if the first bid is selected as the winner, a ratio is computed as the first bid plus the spread to the next highest bid. The price to be paid for the second impression is the first bid multiplied by the new ratio. | 02-02-2012 |
20130191276 | MEDIA CONTENT SELECTION SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY - A method, system, and computer program product provide a methodology for selecting media content. Pick percentages for how often each of two or more selection methodologies are used to select the media content are established. A request for media content is received. Based on the pick percentages, one of the two or more selection methodologies is selected to select media content. The selected media content is then played. | 07-25-2013 |
20130232194 | EVENT APPLICATION - A system, method, and article of manufacture provide the ability to manage event-based information/content. A client application uploads information about an event to an event application executing on a server. The event application manages information for an event site that corresponds to an event that multiple persons attend and is an electronic representation of the event. The event application receives the uploaded information and manages client access to the uploaded information. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232200 | USER AND CONTENT RECOMMENDATION AND DISCOVERY APPLICATION - A method, system, and computer program product provide the ability to display a recommendation. A first user profile for a first user and a second profile are obtained. The first user profile is compared to the second profile to find similar properties. A recommendation is determined based on the similar properties. The recommendation is displayed to the first user. | 09-05-2013 |
20150120468 | MANAGING BIDS IN A REAL-TIME AUCTION FOR ADVERTISEMENTS - A method and system conduct an auction for advertising across multiple markets. A first market conducts a first auction for a first advertising impression. A first bid is selected as the auction winner and a ratio is computed as the first bid plus a spread to the second highest bid. The price to be paid is the lower of the first bid or the first bid multiplied by the ratio. The first bid, second bid, and spread are transmitted to a second market for a second advertising impression auction. The second market respects the rules of the first market's auction where such that if the first bid is selected as the winner, a ratio is computed as the first bid plus the spread to the next highest bid. The price to be paid for the second impression is the first bid multiplied by the new ratio. | 04-30-2015 |
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20100145809 | APPLICATIONS FOR AUCTION FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL AD IMPRESSION - A method and system provide the ability to select media content and an advertisement to be displayed by a user/user device. In response to a received request for media content (e.g., by a broadcast programming provider or content provider) from a particular user device (e.g., a subscriber receiver station or thin client device), a real-time auction is conducted to select a winning advertisement. The auction includes the dynamic request and receipt of a bid, a determination of the winning bid, and the providing of the winning advertisement to be displayed with the media content. | 06-10-2010 |
20130185165 | MEDIA EXCHANGE PLATFORM - A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium provide the ability to exchange media content. A media content request is received at a website from a user. In response to the media content request, the website requests the media content in the media content request from a decisioning engine. In reply, the website receives a media asset or an identifier for the media asset. The media asset or the media asset identifier is then delivered to the user for consumption. | 07-18-2013 |
20130232435 | MAP BASED EVENT NAVIGATION AND VENUE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - A method and system provide the ability to deliver event-based information and providing an event venue recommendation. An event site is established that corresponds to an event that multiple persons attend and is an electronic repository for content related to the event. Content is received from an attendee of the event and is used to populate the event site. A graphical user interface of a map may be populated with a representation of the event and provides navigation capabilities for a user to locate different events on the map. An event is selected in the map and based thereon, content from the event is delivered to a user. The content may also be analyzed to extrapolate information about the attendee. Based on the extrapolated information, a candidate event location may be determined and transmitted as an event venue recommendation. | 09-05-2013 |
20140143046 | ADVERTISEMENT PACKAGER - A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provide the ability to select and display advertisements. A request for advertisements is issued to an advertisement server. An advertisement package comprised of a set of advertisements is received from the advertisement server. The set of advertisements from the advertisement package are loaded. Advertisements in the set of advertisements are delivered for display by display devices. The advertisements that are displayed are tracked in a log that is uploaded to the advertisement server. | 05-22-2014 |
20150066639 | BIDDING FOR ADVERTISING IMPRESSION IN AN ONLINE EXCHANGE USING ONE OR MORE MULTIPLE QUALITY MEASUREMENTS - A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provide the ability to bid for an advertising impression. Within an advertising exchange, an advertising bidding impression campaign to bid for the advertising impression is initialized. A desired impression quality rank is selected and a bid against the desired rank is accepted. An actual impression quality rank for an actual advertising impression in an advertising impression inventory is determined. Based on the bid and the actual impression quality rank, the actual advertising impression is awarded to the bidder. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066662 | UPFRONT ADVERTISEMENT PURCHASING EXCHANGE - A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provide the ability to bid for an advertising impression. Via input from an advertising purchaser, a publisher specification is defined. The publisher specification provides impression information regarding impressions desired by the advertising purchaser. An auction is conducted by receiving one or more bids (that comply with the specification) from one or more publishers. A determination is made regarding which of the one or more publishers has provided a successful bid. The advertising purchaser is enabled to provide one or more advertisements to the one or more successful bidding publishers. | 03-05-2015 |
20150371272 | CONNECTED/AFFILIATED HOUSEHOLD TARGETING - A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to utilize household connections. A device is associated with a primary household. The primary household is connected with one or more additional households. Within a primary household profile, identification information (for the one or more additional households that are connected to the primary household) are stored. Media content based on data associated with the primary and connected households is then targeted. | 12-24-2015 |
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20090137413 | Manipulation of Microparticles In Microfluidic Systems - Arrays of flowable or fixed particle sets are used in microfluidic systems for performing assays and modifying hydrodynamic flow. Also provided are assays utilizing flowable or fixed particle sets within a microfluidic system, as well as kits, apparatus and integrated systems comprising arrays and array members. | 05-28-2009 |
20100129896 | SYSTEM FOR DIFFERENTIATING THE LENGTHS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS OF INTEREST IN A SAMPLE - Systems for differentiating the lengths of nucleic acids of interest in a sample are provided. The system includes a microfluidic device, a detector, and a software system. The microfluidic device includes an amplification microchannel or microchamber containing a reaction mixture under conditions that provide one or more amplicons of the nucleic acid of interest. The detector is integral with or proximal to the microfluidic device and is configured to detect the amplicons as one or more signals from a homogenous mixture. The software system interprets one or more coincidentally detected signals to indicate lengths of one or more individual nucleic acid molecules of interest, thereby differentiating the lengths of the nucleic acids of interest. | 05-27-2010 |
20110118139 | Manipulation of Microparticles In Microfluidic Systems - An array of transportable particle sets is used in a microfluidic device for performing chemical reactions in the microfluidic device. The microfluidic device comprises a main channel and intersecting side channels, the main channel and side channels forming a plurality of intersections. The array of particle sets is disposed in the main channel, and the side channels are coupled to reagents. As the particle sets are transported through the intersections of the main channel and the side channels, reagents are flowed through the side channels into contact with each array member (or selected array members), thereby providing a plurality of chemical reactions in the microfluidic system. | 05-19-2011 |
20120288865 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING THERMAL MELTING CURVES IN A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE - The present invention provides novel methods and devices that employ microfluidic technology to generate molecular melt curves. In particular, the devices and methods in accordance with the invention are useful in providing for the analysis of PCR amplification products. | 11-15-2012 |
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20150205419 | DYNAMIC TACTILE INTERFACE - One variation of a dynamic tactile interface includes a tactile layer defining a peripheral region and a deformable region adjacent the peripheral region; a substrate coupled to the peripheral region, a fluid conduit adjacent the deformable region, a fluid channel fluidly coupled to the fluid conduit, and a via fluidly coupled to the fluid channel and passing through the back surface; a bladder fluidly coupled to the via and the substrate; a structure adjacent a first side of the bladder; and a platen adjacent a second side of the bladder opposite the first side and compressing the bladder against the structure substantially perpendicular the longitudinal axis of the bladder and substantially parallel the substrate to displace fluid from the bladder and into the fluid channel to transition the deformable region from a retracted setting into an expanded setting. | 07-23-2015 |
20150205420 | DYNAMIC TACTILE INTERFACE - The dynamic tactile interface includes: a tactile layer defining a peripheral region and a deformable region adjacent the peripheral region and operable between a retracted setting and an expanded setting; a substrate including an attachment surface and coupled to the peripheral region and defining a fluid conduit adjacent the deformable region and a fluid channel fluidly coupled to the fluid conduit; a border region proximal a periphery of the substrate and defining a cavity configured to receive an instrument, the cavity supporting the instrument in a first configuration and releasing the instrument in a second configuration; and a bladder fluidly coupled to the fluid channel and coupled to the cavity, the instrument compressing a portion of the bladder in the first configuration to displace fluid from the bladder into the fluid channel to transition the deformable region from the retracted setting to the expanded setting. | 07-23-2015 |
20150293633 | DYNAMIC TACTILE INTERFACE - One variation of a dynamic tactile interface includes: a tactile layer including a deformable region and a peripheral region adjacent the deformable region; a substrate coupled to the tactile layer, the substrate defining fluid channel and cooperating with the deformable region to define a variable volume fluidly coupled to the fluid channel; a displacement device coupled to the bladder, displacing fluid into the variable volume to transition the deformable region from the retracted setting to the expanded setting, and displacing fluid out of the variable volume to transition the deformable region from the expanded setting to the retracted setting, the displacement device defining a equilibrium range of fluid pressures within the fluid channel; a reservoir fluidly coupled to the fluid channel and supporting a reserve volume of fluid; and a valve selectively controlling transfer of fluid from the reservoir to the fluid channel. | 10-15-2015 |
20150331525 | DYNAMIC TACTILE INTERFACE - One variation of a dynamic tactile interface includes: a substrate defining a fluid channel and a fluid conduit fluidly coupled to the fluid channel; a tactile layer comprising a peripheral region and a deformable region, the peripheral region coupled to the substrate, and the deformable region arranged over the fluid conduit, disconnected from the substrate, and operable between a retracted setting and an expanded setting, the deformable region elevated above the peripheral region in the expanded setting; a tube comprising a first end fluidly coupled to the fluid channel and constrained relative to the substrate; a volume of fluid within the tube; and a rotary actuator coupled to the tube remote from the first end and configured to transition the deformable region from the retracted setting to the expanded setting by winding the tube to displace a portion of the volume of fluid within the tube into the fluid channel. | 11-19-2015 |
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20120171997 | ENCODED COLORGRAM FOR MOBILE DEVICE SECURITY - A security system includes a software application running in a user's smartphone and a separately carried visual key that the user can image at will with the smartphone's camera. An effective visual key would typically comprise digital data encoded in a series of colored cells arranged in a colorgram. Such digital data is treated as a what-you-have security factor, and is concatenated with other security factors so users can authenticate themselves to websites, internet services, and even within the smartphone device itself or its applications. In one aspect, when users authenticate themselves to a server, the server returns a short-term supply of one-time-passwords or account numbers for use in secure access and financial transactions on other systems. | 07-05-2012 |
20120278241 | TRACEABLE AND NON-REPUTABLE TRANSACTION DEVICES AND METHODS - Data and financial transactions are secured on a mobile electronics device for traceability and non-repudiation. A mobile personal trusted device (PTD) is needed to communicate over a network to a transaction server. Characteristic abstracts of objects carried by users have distinctive features that can be associated with and registered to a particular user and are recorded. An abstract contemporaneously obtained during a secure transaction is sent to a server for use as an authenticator for comparison to an abstract previously obtained and registered to said user. A traceable transaction record is rendered that is highly identifiable and substantially indisputable. | 11-01-2012 |
20120311320 | Mobile Transaction Methods and Devices With Three-Dimensional Colorgram Tokens - A transaction security process includes authentication and identification parts for pushing an encrypted colorgram for user authentication and persona descriptors for user identification from a transaction server to a first personal trusted device. A decryption of the colorgram is displayed on the first personal trusted device. An image is captured by a second personal trusted device. An encryption of the image captured from the second personal trusted device is uploaded to the transaction server. The persona descriptors are used to build a composite rendering for identification of the first user to the second user. The second user clicks “OK” if they recognize the composite drawing as a reasonable persona of the first user. | 12-06-2012 |
20140100973 | SMARTPHONE VIRTUAL PAYMENT CARD - A payment device presents a matrix barcode on a smartphone display screen for scanning by a merchant at a point-of-sale terminal. The consumer authenticates with their payment processor by logging in with their smartphone through a back channel. A successful log-in is rewarded with a matrix barcode the consumer can allow the merchant to scan if the particulars and price of the proposed transaction are acceptable. A transaction summary and request for approval arrive back at the consumer's smartphone through the back channel. Approval can be indicated by the entry of a user PIN code, and the transaction is complete. | 04-10-2014 |
20150019441 | MOBILE-TO-MOBILE TRANSACTIONS - A mobile-to-mobile transaction method allows two mobile smartphones to engage in a private transaction between themselves. The two share the same transaction server using prearranged individual enrollments. These build a dynamic digital image of a colorgram with a selected shape that defines a colorgram matrix boundary. Authentication codes, merchant coupons, product advertisements, and browser uniform resource locator (URL) links for product information and ordering, one-time-password (OTP) seeds, initialization vectors, individual enrollment passwords, or password seeds are embedded and encrypted in each colorgram. The colorgram is sent to a first one of the mobile smartphones for its display to a collocated second one of the mobile smartphones. A transaction is authenticated between users based on a calculated expectation of what should be returned when it provides its own digital image of the colorgram displayed by the first mobile smartphone. | 01-15-2015 |
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20120290436 | PROVIDING CONTENT TO A TARGET NETWORK THAT HAS INSUFFICIENT CONNECTIVITY TO A SOURCE NETWORK - Techniques are provided for remotely controlling the distribution of digital assets to users in less-connected venues. When digital assets are cached within the less-connected venues, users within those less-connected venues are better able consume the assets, and are therefore more likely to purchase rights to consume the assets. Users within a less-connected venue may purchase and consume assets while the target network is completely disconnected from the source network from which the digital asset distribution is controlled. Sessions that are initiated within less-connected venues may be transferred outside those venues, to allow users that have purchased assets to continue to consume those assets after they leave the less connected venues. | 11-15-2012 |
20130028573 | GOAL-BASED VIDEO DELIVERY SYSTEM - A system is provided that facilitates achieving a goal associated with a particular video asset. The system may provide an interface through which a user may specify control parameters that are to be the targets of testing, and a goal or combination of goals. The system may control a controller that performs experiments in an attempt to identify optimal values, relative to the specified goals, for the control parameters. The optimal values may be determined and tested on a per-individual-video asset basis. Further, the controller may generate multiple sets of optimal values for a given video, where each set is associated with a different combination of request attributes. To estimate the optimal parameter values for one video, the controller may use usage information collected for that video, as well as usage information collected for similar videos. | 01-31-2013 |
20150154576 | PROVIDING CONTENT TO A TARGET NETWORK THAT HAS INSUFFICIENT CONNECTIVITY TO A SOURCE NETWORK - Techniques are provided for remotely controlling the distribution of digital assets to users in less-connected venues. When digital assets are cached within the less-connected venues, users within those less-connected venues are better able to consume the assets, and are therefore more likely to purchase rights to consume the assets. Users within a less-connected venue may purchase and consume assets while the target network is completely disconnected from the source network from which the digital asset distribution is controlled. Sessions that are initiated within less-connected venues may be transferred outside those venues, to allow users that have purchased assets to continue to consume those assets after they leave the less connected venues. | 06-04-2015 |
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20110098726 | SHAPE MEMORY FILAMENT FOR SUTURE MANAGEMENT - A member of a rigid flexible elastic material, the member including a body portion and an aperture portion with the member adapted for delivery through an axial longitudinal channel of a percutaneous delivery subsystem, the aperture portion including an expanded mode having a lateral dimension greater than an inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion extends outside the channel and a collapsed mode wherein the lateral dimension is not greater than the inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion is within the channel, the channel including a first axial opening and a second axial opening with the aperture portion transitioning from the expanded mode to the collapsed mode when inserted into the openings and the aperture transitioning from the collapsed mode to the expanded mode when exiting from the openings. | 04-28-2011 |
20110098729 | SHAPE MEMORY FILAMENT FOR SUTURE MANAGEMENT - A member of a rigid flexible elastic material, the member including a body portion and an aperture portion with the member adapted for delivery through an axial longitudinal channel of a percutaneous delivery subsystem, the aperture portion including an expanded mode having a lateral dimension greater than an inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion extends outside the channel and a collapsed mode wherein the lateral dimension is not greater than the inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion is within the channel, the channel including a first axial opening and a second axial opening with the aperture portion transitioning from the expanded mode to the collapsed mode when inserted into the openings and the aperture transitioning from the collapsed mode to the expanded mode when exiting from the openings. | 04-28-2011 |
20110098742 | SHAPE MEMORY FILAMENT FOR SUTURE MANAGEMENT - A member of a rigid flexible elastic material, the member including a body portion and an aperture portion with the member adapted for delivery through an axial longitudinal channel of a percutaneous delivery subsystem, the aperture portion including an expanded mode having a lateral dimension greater than an inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion extends outside the channel and a collapsed mode wherein the lateral dimension is not greater than the inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion is within the channel, the channel including a first axial opening and a second axial opening with the aperture portion transitioning from the expanded mode to the collapsed mode when inserted into the openings and the aperture transitioning from the collapsed mode to the expanded mode when exiting from the openings. | 04-28-2011 |
20160022263 | SHAPE MEMORY FILAMENT FOR SUTURE MANAGEMENT - A member of a rigid flexible elastic material, the member including a body portion and an aperture portion with the member adapted for delivery through an axial longitudinal channel of a percutaneous delivery subsystem, the aperture portion including an expanded mode having a lateral dimension greater than an inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion extends outside the channel and a collapsed mode wherein the lateral dimension is not greater than the inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion is within the channel, the channel including a first axial opening and a second axial opening with the aperture portion transitioning from the expanded mode to the collapsed mode when inserted into the openings and the aperture transitioning from the collapsed mode to the expanded mode when exiting from the openings. | 01-28-2016 |
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20090162926 | PHOTON REDUCING AGENTS FOR FLUORESCENCE ASSAYS - The present invention provides a method for reducing undesirable light emission from a sample using at least one photon producing agent and at least one photon reducing agent (e.g. dye-based photon reducing agents). The present invention further provides a method for reducing undesirable light emission from a sample (e.g. a biochemical or cellular sample) with at least one photon producing agent and at least one collisional quencher. The present invention also provides a method for reducing undesirable light emission from a sample (e.g., a biochemical or cellular sample) with at least one photon producing agent and at least one quencher, such as an electronic quencher. The present invention also provides a system and method of screening test chemicals in fluorescent assays using photon reducing agents. The present invention also provides compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits for practicing these methods. | 06-25-2009 |
20110076711 | PHOTON REDUCING AGENTS FOR FLUORESCENCE ASSAYS - The present invention provides a method for reducing undesirable light emission from a sample using at least one photon producing agent and at least one photon reducing agent (e.g. dye-based photon reducing agents). The present invention further provides a method for reducing undesirable light emission from a sample (e.g., a biochemical or cellular sample) with at least one photon producing agent and at least one collisional quencher. The present invention also provides a method for reducing undesirable light emission from a sample (e.g., a biochemical or cellular sample) with at least one photon producing agent and at least one quencher, such as an electronic quencher. The present invention also provides a system and method of screening test chemicals in fluorescent assays using photon reducing agents. The present invention also provides compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits for practicing these methods. | 03-31-2011 |
20130004960 | PHOTON REDUCING AGENTS FOR FLUORESCENCE ASSAYS - The present invention provides a method for reducing undesirable light emission from a sample using at least one photon producing agent and at least one photon reducing agent (e.g. dye-based photon reducing agents). The present invention further provides a method for reducing undesirable light emission from a sample (e.g., a biochemical or cellular sample) with at least one photon producing agent and at least one collisional quencher. The present invention also provides a method for reducing undesirable light emission from a sample (e.g., a biochemical or cellular sample) with at least one photon producing agent and at least one quencher, such as an electronic quencher. The present invention also provides a system and method of screening test chemicals in fluorescent assays using photon reducing agents. The present invention also provides compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits for practicing these methods. | 01-03-2013 |