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20090081465 | USE OF OILS WITH HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS IN PLASTICS AND SURFACE COATINGS - Oil compositions having a high concentration of polyunsaturated fatty acids are described for use in various applications including use as drying oils, in ink compositions and coating compositions. Oil compositions wherein the double bonds of the fatty acids are substantially epoxidized are described and used as plasticizers and thermal stabilizers for various halogenated polymer compositions. | 03-26-2009 |
20100319635 | REFORMED ALCOHOL POWER SYSTEMS - Improved alcohol reforming processes and reformed alcohol power systems utilizing those processes are disclosed. In preferred embodiments, the alcohol reforming processes utilize a thermally conductive reforming catalyst that allows efficient, low-temperature reforming of an alcohol fuel to produce a reformate gas mixture comprising hydrogen. The present invention makes possible the efficient utilization of alcohol fuels in an internal combustion engine to generate electrical or mechanical power such as in vehicular applications. | 12-23-2010 |
20110071018 | CATALYST FOR DEHYDROGENATING PRIMARY ALCOHOLS - This invention is directed a catalyst for dehydrogenating primary alcohols. | 03-24-2011 |
20120097117 | REFORMED ETHANOL ENGINES - Improved internal combustion engine power systems (e.g., those used to generate mechanical or electrical power in vehicular applications) that utilize a reformed alcohol fuel comprising a hydrogen-containing gas mixture, and more particularly, the efficient operation of such engines and power systems are disclosed. Modes of operating the engine power systems that provide faster startup and lower cost and emissions are provided. In various preferred embodiments, the internal combustion engine power systems include dilution of the intake fluid mixture introduced into the combustion chamber or cylinder of the engine using recirculated exhaust gas and/or excess combustion air as the diluent, use of blends of ethanol reformate and unreformed ethanol as fuel and aftertreatment of the exhaust gas discharged from the cylinder using a lean NO | 04-26-2012 |
20120190889 | PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF A CARBOXYLIC ACID SALT BY DEHYDROGENATION OF A PRIMARY ALCOHOL - This invention is directed a process for preparation of a carboxylic acid salt by dehydrogenation of a primary alcohol. The invention is also directed to a catalyst for dehydrogenating primary alcohols. | 07-26-2012 |
20140256549 | LABILE ESTERS OF AGROCHEMICALS FOR CONTROLLED RELEASE AND REDUCTION OF OFF-SITE MOVEMENT - The present invention relates to esters of carboxylic acid agrochemicals comprising a labile protecting group and having formula (I). Certain of the esters of carboxylic acid agrochemicals do not undergo hydrolysis to a significant degree in the dark, but are cleaved to regenerate the parent carboxylic acid agrochemical when exposed to light. Others of the esters of carboxylic acid agrochemicals undergo hydrolysis under both light and dark conditions. The present invention further relates to methods for the controlled release of a carboxylic acid agrochemicals, and to methods of controlling unwanted plants comprising applying to the unwanted plants an ester of a carboxylic acid agrochemical. | 09-11-2014 |
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20120254889 | Application Programming Interface for Managing Time Sharing Option Address Space - A method includes receiving a start request from a client at a launcher application programming interface (API), determining whether an existing time sharing option (TSO) address space associated with a user of the client is available, retrieving security environment data associated with the user from a security product responsive to determining that no existing TSO address space associated with a user of the client is available, saving the retrieved security environment data as a security object, generating a message queue, generating a terminal status block (TSB) and saving the terminal status block, creating a TSO address space in a processor, sending an instruction to an operating system to start the TSO address space, and sending a message queue identifier associated with the message queue and an address space token associated with the TSO address space to the client. | 10-04-2012 |
20140082313 | STORAGE CLASS MEMORY EVACUATION - Embodiments relate to methods, systems and computer program products for evacuating a portion of a storage class memory. Upon receiving a request to evacuate the portion of the storage class memory a determination is made if the requested evacuation will result in a storage shortage. Based upon determining that the requested evacuation will not result in a storage shortage, the portion of the storage class memory is initialized for evacuation. After initialization is complete, evacuation of the plurality of address spaces of the portion of the storage class memory is preformed, wherein one or more of the plurality of address spaces are evacuated in parallel. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082317 | DEFRAGMENTATION OF STORAGE CLASS MEMORY MANAGED IN EXTENTS - Embodiments relate to methods, systems and computer program products for defragmenting storage class memory by comparing a utilization rate of the storage class memory to a threshold value. If the utilization rate of the storage class memory is greater than the threshold value, the potentially wasted storage space is then compared to the combined storage capacity of the unclaimed extents of the storage class memory. If the potentially wasted storage space is greater than the combined storage capacity of the unclaimed extents of the storage class memory, a determination is made whether a defragmentation was recently performed. Based on determining that the defragmentation was not recently performed, or that it was recently performed and was productive, performing a defragmentation of the storage class memory. | 03-20-2014 |
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20120284457 | SELECTING AN AUXILIARY STORAGE MEDIUM FOR WRITING DATA OF REAL STORAGE PAGES - An auxiliary storage medium is selected for writing data of a set of one or more pages being paged-out from real memory. The auxiliary storage medium is selected from among a plurality of auxiliary storage media, including differing types of storage media, based on characteristics of the plurality of storage media and/or the attributes of the data being written to the auxiliary storage media. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284458 | SELECTING AN AUXILIARY STORAGE MEDIUM FOR WRITING DATA OF REAL STORAGE PAGES - An auxiliary storage medium is selected for writing data of a set of one or more pages being paged-out from real memory. The auxiliary storage medium is selected from among a plurality of auxiliary storage media, including differing types of storage media, based on characteristics of the plurality of storage media and/or the attributes of the data being written to the auxiliary storage media. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284478 | MANAGING STORAGE EXTENTS AND THE OBTAINING OF STORAGE BLOCKS WITHIN THE EXTENTS - Auxiliary storage is segmented into different types of extents (i.e., ranges of storage), including extents with 4K blocks of storage, extents with 1M blocks of storage, empty extents, and mixed extents that include blocks of storage of various sizes (e.g., 4K blocks and 1M blocks). The auxiliary storage, and in particular, the extents and blocks of storage therein, are managed to reduce storage fragmentation and optimize system performance. | 11-08-2012 |
20130185536 | HASH-BASED MANAGING OF STORAGE IDENTIFIERS - Managing storage identifiers in a pool is facilitated by providing a hashing-based management protocol in association with a stack which accommodates storage identifiers of the pool. The hashing-based management protocol includes: based on a request, popping a storage identifier from the stack without evaluating for update of a hash link associated with the stack, potentially allowing the hash link to become inconsistent with storage identifiers remaining in the stack; and based on return of a freed storage identifier to the stack, hashing the freed storage identifier and identifying whether there is an inconsistency in the hash link related to return of the freed storage identifier, and based on identifying the inconsistency, one of updating the hash link to remove the inconsistency, or indicating, where ascertained, that the freed storage identifier is a duplicate storage identifier. | 07-18-2013 |
20150347021 | VERIFICATION OF SERIALIZATION OF STORAGE FRAMES WITHIN AN ADDRESS SPACE VIA MULTI-THREADED PROGRAMS - A method, system, and computer program product to verify serialization of storage frames within an address space via multi-threaded programs is described. The method includes dynamically scaling a number of units of work based on a number of available processors, each of the units of work configured to execute actions, and dynamically scaling an amount and page size of virtual storage accessed by each of the units of work based on a total available memory. The method also includes obtaining, at each of the units of work, different types of storage pages and accessing storage pages corresponding with the respective different types of virtual storage pages associated with the different frame sizes and attributes and performing a respective action, and verifying, for each of the units of work performing the respective action, a state and data content of the storage pages. | 12-03-2015 |
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20110087526 | Social Network Economy Using Gift Credits - In a social networking system environment, users can give another user credits, a scarce commodity, as part of commenting on content posted by the other user. These credits can be used as a peer-to-peer recommendation signal, and they can also be used as input to a decision engine that determines what content to display in a highlights section that will be viewed by a wider audience and increasing the likelihood of further engagement with the content. Credits in a social networking system environment have scarcity value. In various embodiments, in order to increase the number of credits in the system, users buy them or an administrator distributes them. In some implementations, the total amount of credits in the system can decrease if a user cashes out the credits for real money. In some implementations, credits can be used to buy virtual or real-world gifts. | 04-14-2011 |
20120022981 | CREATION, REDEMPTION, AND ACCOUNTING IN A VIRTUAL CURRENCY SYSTEM - A virtual currency system keeps track of virtual credits, which can be owned, transferred, purchased, and sold by participants in a virtual economy. Each virtual credit has an internal value and an external value, which define, respectively, the exchange rates for creating and redeeming the virtual credits. Upon creation of new virtual credits, the internal value for those credits is the rate for which real currency was paid per credit. The external value sets the rate at which the virtual credits can be redeemed for real currency. Each virtual credit may further have a face value, which is an apparent value of the virtual credit within the virtual economy, giving users a baseline impression for valuing the virtual currency. These features of the virtual currency enable a number of useful actions within the virtual economy, including currency seeding, couponing, and chargebacks. | 01-26-2012 |
20120278262 | Suggesting Users for Interacting in Online Applications in a Social Networking Environment - Users of a social networking system are matched with other users of the social networking system based on the likelihood of both users' being interested in using a social application and the likelihood that they would want to interact with each other using the application. Social applications include social games and other applications associated with a social networking system in which users can interact with other users. The social networking system selects for a particular user other candidate users. This selection may be based on at least one of a predicted likelihood that a user would invite the candidate users to use the social application and/or a predicted likelihood that the selected candidate user would accept the user's invitation. The user may choose to act on the suggestion by inviting the other user and the invited user may accept, reject, or ignore the invitation. | 11-01-2012 |
20120317017 | Creation, Redemption, and Accounting In a Virtual Currency System - A virtual currency system keeps track of virtual credits, which can be owned, transferred, purchased, and sold by participants in a virtual economy. Each virtual credit has an internal value and an external value, which define, respectively, the exchange rates for creating and redeeming the virtual credits. Upon creation of new virtual credits, the internal value for those credits is the rate for which real currency was paid per credit. The external value sets the rate at which the virtual credits can be redeemed for real currency. Each virtual credit may further have a face value, which is an apparent value of the virtual credit within the virtual economy, giving users a baseline impression for valuing the virtual currency. These features of the virtual currency enable a number of useful actions within the virtual economy, including currency seeding, couponing, and chargebacks. | 12-13-2012 |
20130013418 | Selection And Presentation Of Related Social Networking System Content And Advertisements - A social networking system uses information that it obtains from and about its users to select social networking content and advertising for presentation to users in a way that optimizes for one or more optimization goals. Example optimization goals include monetization, user sharing, user engagement, system growth, and user communication. The social networking system may select social networking content and advertising based on their relevance to a particular user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be related to each other to provide a more interesting display to the user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be presented in a supplemental portion of a display, and be selected based on their relatedness to content in the main portion of the display. | 01-10-2013 |
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20100217645 | Engagement Interface Advertising in a Social Network - A social network advertises to its members with engagement interfaces. An engagement interface comprises a call to action and a link to perform the action within the social network from within the engagement interface. Responsive to a user selection of the link to perform the action, the engagement interface modifies one or more objects within the social network associated with the call to action according to the selection of the link to perform the action. The engagement interface may be refreshed on the user's screen to indicate to the user that the action has been performed. An engagement interface may also be presented to a user from the social network or from an external system apart from the social network. | 08-26-2010 |
20110153377 | Mixing and Targeting Content Types/Items for Users to Promote Optimization Goals - A social networking system uses information that it obtains from and about its users to select social networking content and advertising for presentation to users in a way that optimizes for one or more optimization goals. Example optimization goals include monetization, user sharing, user engagement, system growth, and user communication. The social networking system may select social networking content and advertising based on their relevance to a particular user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be related to each other to provide a more interesting display to the user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be presented in a supplemental portion of a display, and be selected based on their relatedness to content in the main portion of the display. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153412 | Selection and Presentation of Related Social Networking System Content and Advertisements - A social networking system uses information that it obtains from and about its users to select social networking content and advertising for presentation to users in a way that optimizes for one or more optimization goals. Example optimization goals include monetization, user sharing, user engagement, system growth, and user communication. The social networking system may select social networking content and advertising based on their relevance to a particular user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be related to each other to provide a more interesting display to the user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be presented in a supplemental portion of a display, and be selected based on their relatedness to content in the main portion of the display. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153421 | Context-Based Selection and Presentation of Social Networking System Content and Advertisements - A social networking system uses information that it obtains from and about its users to select social networking content and advertising for presentation to users in a way that optimizes for one or more optimization goals. Example optimization goals include monetization, user sharing, user engagement, system growth, and user communication. The social networking system may select social networking content and advertising based on their relevance to a particular user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be related to each other to provide a more interesting display to the user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be presented in a supplemental portion of a display, and be selected based on their relatedness to content in the main portion of the display. | 06-23-2011 |
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20090219159 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN ELECTRONIC PERSONAL TRAINER - A method and system to implement an electronic personal training is provided. According to an example embodiment, personal goals for fitness and health-related activities may be recorded, tracked, and provided, using personal electronic devices. The personal electronic devices may receive and store input from objects (e.g., exercise equipments or food items) in an environment (e.g., a fitness center or a supermarket) and output relevant personal information about the activity currently being input (e.g. on a digital screen, pre-stored version of a human voice, etc.). The portable electronic devices may periodically communicate data with a system located on a communications network, where the fitness data may be processed to provide individual and group reports (e.g. email sent to person, membership trends to gyms, account history available online). A user may set or modify his or her goals by accessing the system via the portable electronic device or a user computer. | 09-03-2009 |
20130013695 | Engagement Interface Advertising In A Social Network - A social network advertises to its members with engagement interfaces. An engagement interface comprises a call to action and a link to perform the action within the social network from within the engagement interface. Responsive to a user selection of the link to perform the action, the engagement interface modifies one or more objects within the social network associated with the call to action according to the selection of the link to perform the action. The engagement interface may be refreshed on the user's screen to indicate to the user that the action has been performed. An engagement interface may also be presented to a user from the social network or from an external system apart from the social network. | 01-10-2013 |
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20130317906 | TARGETING TO USERS WITH SEEDED OR DISCOUNTED CREDITS IN A VIRTUAL CURRENCY SYSTEM - A virtual currency system keeps track of virtual credits, which can be owned, transferred, purchased, and sold by participants in a virtual economy. Each virtual credit has an internal value and an external value, which define, respectively, the exchange rates for creating and redeeming the virtual credits. Upon creation of new virtual credits, the internal value for those credits is the rate for which real currency was paid per credit. The external value sets the rate at which the virtual credits can be redeemed for real currency. Each virtual credit may further have a face value, which is an apparent value of the virtual credit within the virtual economy, giving users a baseline impression for valuing the virtual currency. These features of the virtual currency enable a number of useful actions within the virtual economy, including currency seeding, couponing, and chargebacks. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317972 | SEEDING AND DISCOUNTING CREDITS IN A VIRTUAL CURRENCY SYSTEM - A virtual currency system keeps track of virtual credits, which can be owned, transferred, purchased, and sold by participants in a virtual economy. Each virtual credit has an internal value and an external value, which define, respectively, the exchange rates for creating and redeeming the virtual credits. Upon creation of new virtual credits, the internal value for those credits is the rate for which real currency was paid per credit. The external value sets the rate at which the virtual credits can be redeemed for real currency. Each virtual credit may further have a face value, which is an apparent value of the virtual credit within the virtual economy, giving users a baseline impression for valuing the virtual currency. These features of the virtual currency enable a number of useful actions within the virtual economy, including currency seeding, couponing, and chargebacks. | 11-28-2013 |
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20090067159 | SAFETY HARNESS - A novel safety harness is disclosed. The safety harness has straps for securing upon a subject. Arranged around the straps are several light emitting diodes (LEDs). The LEDs are driven by pulses of current that exceed the power rating of the LED, but the current is driven for a very short period of time, such that the LEDs are not destroyed. These LEDs blink when turned on and emit substantially more light than is typically found in LEDs, such that the subject is visible from a distance of up to two thousand feet. Multiple safety harnesses may be strapped together, allowing the safety device to be used in a variety of settings, both for human and non-human subjects. | 03-12-2009 |
20100070097 | REMOTELY CONTROLLED FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM - Method and apparatus for remotely controlling a fire protection system for buildings. This method of fire protection uses a wireless or wired control system to remotely activate a fire protection system by sending it an activation signal or activation message wherein one or more commands can configure the system with specified operation instructions. The system utilizes roof top sprinklers and may additionally utilize existing irrigation systems or additional zones only used during the prevention of wildfires to wet down area in advance of fires. The system can be controlled by various municipal fire authorities that are given the authority to control fires. Immediate control of the system is always available to the transmitting authority. When activated, the central processor communicates to the authority that activated the fire protection system. The central processor transmits information back to the transmitting authority such as but not limited to water flow confirmation, water pressure, air temperature, roof temperature, wind direction, humidity and still or live images of the protected property. | 03-18-2010 |
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