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20140163272 | CONVERSION OF TRIACYLGLYCERIDES-CONTAINING OILS TO HYDROCARBONS - A process for converting triacylglycerides-containing oils into crude oil precursors and/or distillate hydrocarbon fuels is disclosed. The process may include: reacting a triacylglycerides-containing oil-water-hydrogen mixture at a temperature in the range from about 250° C. to about 525° C. and a pressure greater than about 75 bar to convert at least a portion of the triacylglycerides and recovering a reaction effluent comprising water and one or more of isoolefins, isoparaffins, cycloolefins, cycloparaffins, and aromatics; hydrotreating the reaction effluent to form a hydrotreated effluent. | 06-12-2014 |
20140221712 | UPGRADING RAW SHALE-DERIVED CRUDE OILS TO HYDROCARBON DISTILLATE FUELS - Integrated processes for upgrading crude shale-derived oils, such as those produced by oil shale retorting or by in situ extraction or combinations thereof. Processes disclosed provide for a split-flow processing scheme to upgrade whole shale oil. The split flow concepts described herein, i.e., naphtha and kerosene hydrotreating in one or more stages and gas oil hydrotreating in one or more stages, requires additional equipment as compared to the alternative approach of whole oil hydrotreating. While contrary to conventional wisdom as requiring more capital equipment to achieve the same final product specifications, the operating efficiency vis a vis on-stream time efficiency and product quality resulting from the split flow concept far exceed in value the somewhat incrementally higher capital expenditure costs. | 08-07-2014 |
20140262942 | HYDROPROCESSING THERMALLY CRACKED PRODUCTS - Embodiments herein relate to a process flow scheme for the processing of gas oils and especially reactive gas oils produced by thermal cracking of residua using a split flow concept. The split flow concepts disclosed allow optimization of the hydrocracking reactor seventies and thereby take advantage of the different reactivities of thermally cracked gas oils versus those of virgin gas oils. This results in a lower cost facility for producing base oils as well as diesel, kerosene and gasoline fuels while achieving high conversions and high catalyst lives. | 09-18-2014 |
20150307790 | UPGRADING RAW SHALE-DERIVED CRUDE OILS TO HYDROCARBON DISTILLATE FUELS - Integrated processes for upgrading crude shale-derived oils, such as those produced by oil shale retorting or by in situ extraction or combinations thereof. Processes disclosed provide for a split-flow processing scheme to upgrade whole shale oil. The split flow concepts described herein, i.e., naphtha and kerosene hydrotreating in one or more stages and gas oil hydrotreating in one or more stages, requires additional equipment as compared to the alternative approach of whole oil hydrotreating. While contrary to conventional wisdom as requiring more capital equipment to achieve the same final product specifications, the operating efficiency vis a vis on-stream time efficiency and product quality resulting from the split flow concept far exceed in value the somewhat incrementally higher capital expenditure costs. | 10-29-2015 |
20160040078 | CONVERSION OF TRIACYLGLYCERIDES-CONTAINING OILS TO HYDROCARBONS - A process for converting triacylglycerides-containing oils into crude oil precursors and/or distillate hydrocarbon fuels is disclosed. The process may include: reacting a triacylglycerides-containing oil-water-hydrogen mixture at a temperature in the range from about 250° C. to about 525° C. and a pressure greater than about 75 bar to convert at least a portion of the triacylglycerides and recovering a reaction effluent comprising water and one or more of isoolefins, isoparaffins, cycloolefins, cycloparaffins, and aromatics; hydrotreating the reaction effluent to form a hydrotreated effluent. | 02-11-2016 |
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20110053751 | Method and machine for producing packaging cushioning - A method for producing packaging cushioning includes successively feeding sheets of a substrate at a first speed to a crumpling mechanism, crumpling the sheets at a second speed to convert the sheets into packaging cushion units, and controlling at least one of the first and second speeds to produce a desired degree of overlap between successive sheets, thereby generating a connected series of the packaging cushion units. | 03-03-2011 |
20140200127 | System for Producing Packaging Cushioning - A system for producing packaging cushioning generally includes a cushion conversion machine and a supply structure for a stack of fan-folded sheet stock material. The structure is positioned relative to the machine to supply thereto the fan-folded sheet stock material for conversion thereof into packaging cushioning, and includes an inclined, load-bearing support. The load-bearing support includes a base and a riser extending upwardly from the base, the base and the riser being structured and arranged to cooperatively accommodate the stack of fan-folded sheet stock material such that the sheet stock material is supplied to the cushion conversion machine from a top of the stack and a bottom of the stack is supported by the base. The riser is inclined at an angle relative to vertical such that the stack of fan-folded sheet stock material is also inclined at the angle, whereby, the stack is urged against the riser by force of gravity. | 07-17-2014 |
20150119224 | System For Producing Packaging Cushioning And Supply Structure Therefor - A supply structure for a supply of fan-folded sheet stock material, which is positionable relative to a cushion conversion machine to provide thereto the fan-folded sheet stock material for conversion thereof into packaging cushioning. The supply structure includes two or more supports, each of the supports including a base and a riser extending upwardly from the base. The base and the riser are structured and arranged to cooperatively accommodate a stack of the fan-folded sheet stock material. | 04-30-2015 |
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20140130134 | Managing and Providing Access to Applications in an Application-Store Module - According to one embodiment, a system includes an interface and a processor. The interface receives, from a device, a request to access an application-store module, the device being associated with a first user. The processor determines a device type associated with the device; determines an operating system associated with the device; determines a user role associated with the first user; and determines, based on the device type, the operating system, and the user role, one or more applications. The interface communicates, to the device, a first set of information to be displayed on the device, the first set of information being associated with the one or more applications. | 05-08-2014 |
20140149998 | Interfacing Between Native and Web Applications Utilizing a Mobile Module - According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, interfacing between a plurality of applications for display on a mobile device includes receiving, by an interface, a request to open a plurality of applications. The plurality of applications are associated with a plurality of business units and comprise one or more native applications and one or more web applications. A processor opens the plurality of applications in a container according to a configuration file. The processor is communicatively coupled to the interface. The container is operable to be displayed on a user interface of the mobile device. | 05-29-2014 |
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20120196614 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNIFIED MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNICATION EVENTS - A method and system for providing unified management of communication events. The method comprises receiving a communication message in a first format, converting the communication message to a generic message, determining one or more message destinations based on a set of routing rules, determining one or more message formats based on the determined destinations, converting the generic message into a converted message, and transmitting the converted message to the one or more determined destinations. The generic message is stored in a destination agnostic format. The converted message is stored in the one or more message formats associated with the one or more determined destinations. | 08-02-2012 |
20140169230 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONDUCTING CONFERENCE CALLS - Systems and methods performed by an IP telephony system allow a user to request that his IP telephony device be set into a conference calling mode for an indefinite period of time. When the user's IP telephony device is in the conference calling mode, all parties that attempt to call the user's IP telephony device are added to a conference bridge tied to the user's IP telephony device. All incoming calls are treated in this fashion until the user cancels the conference calling mode and returns to a normal calling mode. | 06-19-2014 |
20150078209 | Systems and Methods of Conducting Conference Calls - Systems and methods performed by an IP telephony system allow a user to request that his IP telephony device be set into a conference calling mode for an indefinite period of time. When the user's IP telephony device is in the conference calling mode, all parties that attempt to call the user's IP telephony device are added to a conference bridge tied to the user's IP telephony device. All incoming calls are treated in this fashion until the user cancels the conference calling mode and returns to a normal calling mode. | 03-19-2015 |
20150372952 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED CONTENT MESSAGING - Methods and system for integrating a media file within a text message on a user device are provided herein. In some embodiment, a method for integrating a media file within a text message may include sending a request to determine whether one or more text message terms included in a text message matches a predetermined list of terms, wherein each term in the predetermined list is associated with at least one media file, and receiving an indication of a match between the one or more text message terms and at least one term in the predetermined list, and tagging each of the matched text message terms with the at least one media file associated with the corresponding matched term in the predetermined list. | 12-24-2015 |
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20130290936 | Method and System for Correlated Tracing with Automated Multi-Layer Function Instrumentation Localization - A system for automatically instrumenting and tracing an application program and related software components achieves a correlated tracing of the program execution. It includes tracing of endpoints that are the set of functions in the program execution path that the developers are interested. The tracing endpoints and related events become the total set of functions to be traced in the program (called instrument points). This invention automatically analyzes the program and generates such instrumentation points to enable correlated tracing. The generated set of instrumentation points addresses common questions that developers ask when they use monitoring tools. | 10-31-2013 |
20130318505 | Efficient Unified Tracing of Kernel and User Events with Multi-Mode Stacking - The invention efficiently provides user code information for kernel level tracing approaches. It applies an advanced variation of stack walking called multi-mode stack walking to the entire system level and generates the unified trace where the user code and kernel events are integrated. The invention uses runtime stack information and internal kernel data structures. Therefore, source code for user level code and libraries are not required for inspection. The invention introduces the mechanism to narrow down the monitoring focus to specific application software and improve monitoring performance. | 11-28-2013 |
20140068351 | Blackbox Memory Monitoring with a Calling Context Memory Map and Semantic Extraction - A computer implemented method provides efficient monitoring and analysis of a program's memory objects in the operation stage. The invention can visualize and analyze a monitored program's data status with improved semantic information without requiring source code at runtime. The invention can provide higher quality of system management, performance debugging, and root-cause error analysis of enterprise software in the production stage. | 03-06-2014 |
20140298300 | Guarding a Monitoring Scope and Interpreting Partial Control Flow Context - A computer implemented method for maintaining a program's calling context correct even when a monitoring of the program goes out of a scope of a program analysis by validating function call transitions and recovering partial paths before and after the violation of the program's control flow. The method includes detecting a violation of control flow invariants in the software system including validating a source and destination of a function call in the software system, interpreting a pre-violation partial path responsive to a failure of the validating, and interpreting a post violation path after a violation of program flow. | 10-02-2014 |
20140310561 | DYNAMIC FUNCTION-LEVEL HARDWARE PERFORMANCE PROFILING FOR APPLICATION PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS - The invention is directed to a computer implemented method and a system that implements an application performance profiler with hardware performance event information. The profiler provides dynamic tracing of application programs, and offers fine-grained hardware performance event profiling at function levels. To control the perturbation on target applications, the profiler also includes a control mechanism to constraint the function profiling overhead within a budget configured by users. | 10-16-2014 |
20150043382 | HYBRID NETWORK MANAGEMENT - Method and systems for controlling a hybrid network having software-defined network (SDN) switches and legacy switches include initializing a hybrid network topology by retrieving information on a physical and virtual infrastructure of the hybrid network; generating a path between two nodes on the hybrid network based on the physical and virtual infrastructure of the hybrid network; generating a virtual local area network by issuing remote procedure call instructions to legacy switches in accordance with a network configuration request; and generating an SDN network slice by issuing SDN commands to SDN switches in accordance with the network configuration request. | 02-12-2015 |
20150106794 | TRANSPARENT PERFORMANCE INFERENCE OF WHOLE SOFTWARE LAYERS AND CONTEXT-SENSITIVE PERFORMANCE DEBUGGING - Methods and systems for performance inference include inferring an internal application status based on a unified call stack trace that includes both user and kernel information by inferring user function instances. A calling context encoding is generated that includes information regarding function calling paths. Application performance is analyzed based on the encoded calling contexts. The analysis includes performing a top-down latency breakdown and ranking calling contexts according to how costly each function calling path is. | 04-16-2015 |
20150180755 | System and Method for Network Packet Event Characterization and Analysis - A computer implemented method for network monitoring includes providing network packet event characterization and analysis for network monitoring that includes supporting summarization and characterization of network packet traces collected across multiple processing elements of different types in a virtual network, including a trace slicing to organize individual packet events into path-based trace slices, a trace characterization to extract at least 2 types of feature matrix describing those trace slices, and a trace analysis to cluster, rank and query packet traces based on metrics of the feature matrix. | 06-25-2015 |
20150278069 | Dynamic Border Line Tracing for Tracking Message Flows Across Distributed Systems - The present invention enables capturing API level calls using a combination of dynamic instrumentation and library overriding. The invention allows event level tracing of API function calls and returns, and is able to generate an execution trace. The instrumentation is lightweight and relies on dynamic library/shared library linking mechanisms in most operating systems. Hence we need no source code modification or binary injection. The tool can be used to capture parameter values, and return values, which can be used to correlate traces across API function calls to generate transaction flow logic. | 10-01-2015 |
20150281076 | Layer 2 Path Tracing Through Context Encoding in Software Defined Networking - A computer implemented method for network monitoring includes providing network packet event characterization and analysis for network monitoring that includes supporting summarization and characterization of network packet traces collected across multiple processing elements of different types in a virtual network, including a trace slicing to organize individual packet events into path-based trace slices, a trace characterization to extract at least 2 types of feature matrix describing those trace slices, and a trace analysis to cluster, rank and query packet traces based on metrics of the feature matrix. | 10-01-2015 |
20160057018 | OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR MULTI-TENANT DATA CENTERS - Systems and methods for decoupled searching and optimization for one or more data centers, including determining a network topology for one or more networks of interconnected computer systems embedded in the one or more data center, searching for routing candidates based on a network topology determined, and updating and applying one or more objective functions to the routing candidates to determine an optimal routing candidate to satisfy embedding goals based on tenant requests, and to embed the optimal routing candidate in the one or more data centers. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057054 | Path Selection in Hybrid Networks - Systems and methods for controlling legacy switch routing in one or more hybrid networks of interconnected computers and switches, including generating a network underlay for the one or more hybrid networks by generating a minimum spanning tree (MST) and a forwarding graph (FWG) over a physical network topology of the one or more hybrid networks, determining an optimal path between hosts on the FWG by optimizing an initial path with a minimum cost mapping, and adjusting the initial path to enforce the optimal path by generating and installing special packets in one or more programmable switches to trigger installation of forwarding rules for one or more legacy switches. | 02-25-2016 |
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20080299394 | COATED METAL PARTICLES - A method for preparing particles to retain a charge such that the particles are rendered electrostatically or electrokinetically mobile. The method involves coating the particles with a coating medium which facilitates attachment of a charge director material, and contacting the particles with the coating medium thereon with a charge director medium to impart a positive or negative charge thereto and thereby render the particles electrostatically or electrokinetically mobile. Electrostatically and electrokinetically mobile particles for use in an electrostatic or electrokinetic deposition process. The particles include a coating medium and a charge director on particle bodies. | 12-04-2008 |
20100139952 | FLUX FORMULATIONS - Flux formulations that remain pliable after deposition are disclosed. In certain examples, the flux comprises a first component and an effective amount of a second component to provide a pliable flux after deposition. The flux may also include activators, plasticizers and the like. | 06-10-2010 |
20140060703 | FLUX FORMULATIONS - Flux formulations that remain pliable and tack-free after deposition are disclosed. In certain examples, the flux comprises a first component and an effective amount of a second component to provide a pliable flux after deposition. The flux may also include activators, plasticizers, surface active agents and other components. | 03-06-2014 |