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20080291885 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION OF MIPv6 MOBILE NODES - A method for communication of MIPv6 mobile nodes, comprising: the mobile node accesses network at access location and obtains care of address, calculating a privacy identifier PID using the care of address etc. the mobile node replaces its home address by the PID, and sends the PID and the care of address together as binding update message to the home agent and correspondent node, the home agent and correspondent node recover the home address for the mobile node using the PID after they have received the binding update message. The method for communication of MIPv6 mobile nodes according to the present invention uses that a configuring replaced identifier replacing the home address is sent, thereby hiding Ipv6 address. By setting PID and its algorithm, we improve the sequence number in the binding update messages enabling the sequence number has randomness, and prevent the intercepting person continue tracking the mobile node through the home address. | 11-27-2008 |
20090258338 | SIMULATED 5-PART DIFFERENTIAL LEUKOCYTE GRANULES, THE METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME AND CONTROL PRODUCTS AND CALIBRATORS COMPRISING THE SAME - A method for preparing five-part differential leukocyte analogs from red blood cells includes selecting appropriate red blood cells; treating the red blood cells with a multi-functional reagent system for maintenance of a structural integrity of the membranes of the red blood cells and synchronous adjustment of cell volume, morphology and inclusions; subjecting the treated red blood cells to an intensified fixation; and washing the treated cells for preservation. The present disclosure also relates to leukocyte analogs prepared by the above method, a reagent system used for preparing the analogs, and a quality control and a calibrator including the analogs for use in a hematology analyzer. | 10-15-2009 |
20100023147 | RECONFIGURATION OF ASSETS FOR REUSE DURING MANUFACTURING - A method for reconfiguring a partially manufactured product during a manufacturing process is disclosed. The method can include reading a configuration of the partially manufactured product and reading at least one order for a manufactured product, wherein each order is associated with a target configuration. The method can further include reading a set of rules that match a given configuration with one of a set of target configurations and executing the set of rules upon the configuration of the partially manufactured product so as to match the configuration of the partially manufactured product with one of a target configuration of the at least one order. The method can further include initiating re-configuration of the partially manufactured product to the target configuration with which it was matched. Thus, the partially manufactured product is reused in the manufacturing process to fulfill an order it was not originally created to fulfill. | 01-28-2010 |
20110078482 | Method and Apparatus for Audio Receiver Clock Synchronization - An audio receiver's output clock is synchronized based on a number of input and output audio samples measured over a predetermined sample period. In one embodiment, a sample difference may be determined by subtracting the measured number of input audio samples from the measured number of output audio samples. This sample difference may then be compared to a predetermined threshold. In one embodiment, if the absolute value of the sample difference is less than the predetermined threshold, no adjustment to the output clock may be needed. When the absolute value of the sample difference is greater than the predetermined threshold, the output clock rate may be adjusted either upwards or downwards. | 03-31-2011 |
20130094495 | SESSION TRANSFER METHOD, APPLICATION SERVER, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications and provide a session transfer method, an application server, and a communications system, which implement a cross-network session transfer between a CS domain and an IMS domain. The method includes: after receiving a session transfer request sent by user B or user C in the IMS domain, sending a release message to the user B currently in a call to terminate a session between user A in the CS domain and the user B, and negotiating media information of the user A and media information of the user C to establish a session between the user A and the user C. The embodiments of the present invention apply to a cross-network session between the CS domain and the IMS domain. | 04-18-2013 |
20130167133 | METHOD, TERMINAL AND SYSTEM FOR UPGRADING SOFTWARE VERSION - The present invention discloses a method for upgrading a software version, which is applied to a mobile terminal, and the method comprises: a mobile terminal receiving a losslessly-compressed update file of a software version, and decompressing and restoring the update file; and the mobile terminal performing writing operation after the update file is decompressed and restored. The present invention further provides a mobile terminal and a system based on the method. Through the present solution, the update file of the software version of the mobile terminal is losslessly compressed by a lossless compression algorithm to solve the problems of very long downloading time and low downloading direct through rate in the related arts where the update file of the software version is directly downloaded and upgraded, therefore, the data transmission volume is reduced, the upgrade time of the mobile terminal is effectively reduced, and the mobile terminal can complete the upgrade process fast and securely, thus the upgrading and downloading efficiency is improved. | 06-27-2013 |
20140354246 | BRIDGELESS PFC POWER CONVERTER WITH HIGH EFFICIENCY - A bridgeless PFC boost converter has two auxiliary transistor switches coupled to an input AC voltage source and two boost inductors coupled to opposing ends of the input AC voltage source. A first boost inductor is coupled to a junction node of a first rectifying diode and a first transistor switch coupled in series. A second boost inductors is coupled to a junction node of a second rectifying diode and a second transistor switch coupled in series. The rectifying diodes are commonly coupled to an output capacitor, and the transistor switches are commonly coupled to a second node of the output capacitor. A first auxiliary transistor switch is commonly coupled with the first boost inductor and to a first node of the input AC voltage source. A second auxiliary transistor switch is commonly coupled with the second boost inductor and to a second node of the input AC voltage source. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354247 | BRIDGELESS PFC POWER CONVERTER WITH REDUCED EMI NOISE - A bridgeless PFC boost converter has either a single switching cell or two identical switching cells configured to operate 180 degrees out of phase. A switching cell includes first and second transistor switches coupled to opposing ends of an input AC voltage source, and first and second rectifying diodes, one rectifying diode coupled in series to each of the two transistor switches. A boost inductor is coupled to a junction node between each transistor switch and rectifying diode series. Either a third rectifying diode or a third transistor switch is coupled to a junction node between the input AC voltage source and the first transistor switch. Either a fourth rectifying diode or a fourth transistor switch is coupled to a junction node between the input AC voltage source and the second transistor switch. The rectifying diodes are coupled an output capacitor. Two switching cells can be interleaved. | 12-04-2014 |
20150022954 | MEASURING MACHINE - A measuring machine includes a measuring device and a protective cover covering the measuring device. The measuring device is configured to measure parameters of a work piece. The measuring device includes a control box, a supporting board, a light ring configured to illuminate the work piece, and a camera module configured to obtain images of the work piece. The cover is made of non-transparent material. A first side of the cover defines a cut-out and a first slot. A second side of the cover opposite to the first side defines a second slot corresponding in size and alignment with the first slot. One side of the control box is exposed from the cut. Two ends of the supporting board are positioned on the first and second slots and exposed from the first and second slots. | 01-22-2015 |
20150142760 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DEDUPLICATING WEB PAGE - A method and a device is described for de-duplicating a web page. The method includes: extracting at least one core sentence from a target web page; mapping each core sentence to a unique numeric value to form a first numeric value set; determining an intersection set of the first numeric value set and each second numeric value set, and the number of numeric values included in each intersection set, and determining a maximum number of numeric values included in each intersection set; and when a ratio of the maximum number to a total number of numeric values in the first numeric value set is greater than a set threshold, processing the target web page as a duplicate web page. In embodiments of the present invention, during web page de-duplication processing, accuracy can be improved, an anti-noise capability can be enhanced, and a calculating scale can be reduced. | 05-21-2015 |
20150326596 | CLOUD BASED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING INTERNET USAGE - A cloud based method and apparatus for monitoring internet usage are provided. The method comprises: receiving a website inquiry instruction sent by a client, wherein the instruction comprises a website identifier; determining whether the website is a website to be monitored; and if the website is a website to be monitored, processing the website inquiry instruction in accordance with a security policy pre-stored in a server, wherein the security policy is set by the client. Since the security policy is stored on a server, it cannot be easily circumvented by the user, and its effectiveness is enhanced. | 11-12-2015 |
20150358342 | MALICIOUS WEBSITE ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS - A malicious website access method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining whether a website is a malicious website; and acquiring a non-executable preview interface of a web page of the malicious website for a terminal to display, if the website is a malicious website. A user may view, through a non-executable preview interface, information about a website to be accessed by the user. Moreover, because a terminal does not access a malicious website directly, the terminal is not exposed to malicious websites, thereby enhancing security of the terminal. | 12-10-2015 |
20160094299 | Harmonic Suppression System - A harmonic suppression system, including an interface connector is connected to a common end of a first differential SPMT switch; a control port of the first differential SPMT switch is connected to a control port of a second differential SPMT switch, and a gating throw end of the first differential SPMT switch is separately connected to one end of each LC trap network in a one-to-one correspondence; the control port of the second differential SPMT switch is connected to a baseband chip, each gating throw end of the second differential SPMT switch is separately connected to the other end of each LC trap network in a one-to-one correspondence, and a common end of the second differential SPMT switch is connected to the baseband chip; the baseband chip is connected to an antenna switch; and the antenna switch is connected to a antenna. | 03-31-2016 |
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20080317321 | High quality volume rendering with graphics processing unit - A technique for generating DRR (digitally reconstructed radiography) images includes dividing sample points along a ray trajectory through a 3-dimensional dataset of attenuation values into stages. Each of the stages includes a plurality of the sample points. The attenuation values are summed along the ray trajectory for each of the sample points. Intermediate summation values are computed for each of the stages along the ray trajectory and for each of the stages the attenuation values summed within a given stage are summed with a previous stage intermediate summation value calculated for a stage previous to the given stage to generate a given stage intermediate summation value. A final accumulation value being representative of a total attenuation summed along the ray trajectory is calculated. | 12-25-2008 |
20090175406 | Target tracking using surface scanner and four-dimensional diagnostic imaging data - A method and apparatus for tracking a pathological anatomy within a patient's body is described. A data model of a skin surface of the patient's body may be acquired using light reflected from the skin surface. The data model can be matched with skin surfaces reconstructed and/or interpolated from four-dimensional (4D) diagnostic imaging data, such as 4D CT data, to determine a temporal phase of the patient's respiratory motion. The identified temporal phase may then be used in conjunction with the diagnostic imaging data to identify a location of the pathological anatomy within the patient's body. | 07-09-2009 |
20100080354 | SUBTRACTION OF A SEGMENTED ANATOMICAL FEATURE FROM AN ACQUIRED IMAGE - A system, method and apparatus for subtracting a synthetically-generated image, including a segmented anatomical feature, from an acquired image. | 04-01-2010 |
20100202673 | TARGET TRACKING USING SURFACE SCANNER AND FOUR-DIMENSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING DATA - Tracking a pathological anatomy within a patient's body is described. A data model of a skin surface of the patient's body may be acquired using light reflected from the skin surface. The data model can be matched with skin surfaces reconstructed and/or interpolated from four-dimensional diagnostic imaging data, such as 4D CT data, to determine a temporal phase of the patient's respiratory motion. The identified temporal phase may then be used in conjunction with the diagnostic imaging data to identify a location of the pathological anatomy within the patient's body. | 08-12-2010 |
20110050692 | INTERPOLATING AND RENDERING SUB-PHASES OF A 4D DATASET - A technique for rendering a deformable volume includes acquiring 3D images of a deformable volume including an object during phases of a deformation motion. The 3D images include voxels, a portion of which move from original coordinate locations during a primary phase to deformed coordinate locations during each subsequent phase of the deformation motion. Deformation matrixes each based upon one of the 3D images during a different one of the phases are generated. The deformation matrixes each include transformation vectors describing how to return the voxels from their deformed coordination locations to their original coordinate locations of the primary phase. A sub-phase 3D image of the deformable volume between consecutive phases is generated by interpolating between the transformation vectors of the consecutive phases associated with a given coordinate location within the deformable volume and retrieving voxel data from a primary 3D image at voxel locations referenced by interpolated transformation vectors. | 03-03-2011 |
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20100222233 | AFFINITY CAPTURE OF PEPTIDES BY MICROARRAY AND RELATED METHODS - The invention provides methods of detecting polypeptides in a sample. The method can include the steps of cleaving polypeptides in a test sample to generate peptides; adding a predetermined amount of isotopically labeled peptide standards to the cleaved test sample, wherein the peptide standards correspond to peptides cleaved with the same reagent used to cleave the test sample; contacting the cleaved test sample containing peptide standards with an array of immobilized binding agents specific for the peptide standards; washing the array to remove unbound peptides, thereby retaining affinity captured sample peptides and standard peptides; analyzing the affinity captured peptides using mass spectrometry; and determining the presence of bound test peptides and standard peptides. The method can further include the step of quantifying the amount of the test peptides by comparing the ratio of test peptide to corresponding standard peptide. | 09-02-2010 |
20100279382 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR QUANTIFICATION OF SERUM GLYCOPROTEINS - The invention provides compositions and methods for identifying and/or quantifying glycopolypeptides from human serum or plasma. The compositions and methods include a plurality of standard peptides containing glycosylation sites determined for human serum/plasma proteins. | 11-04-2010 |
20110053242 | Immunoaffinity isolation of modified peptides from complex mixtures - The invention provides methods for isolating a modified peptide from a complex mixture of peptides, the method comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining a proteinaceous preparation from an organism, wherein the preparation comprises modified peptides from two or more different proteins; (b) contacting the preparation with at least one immobilized modification-specific antibody; and (c) isolating at least one modified peptide specifically bound by the immobilized modification-specific antibody in step (b). The method may further comprise the step of (d) characterizing the modified peptide isolated in step (c) by mass spectrometry (MS), tandem mass spectrometry (MS-MS), and/or MS | 03-03-2011 |
20120244594 | Immunoaffinity isolation of modified peptides from complex mixtures - The invention provides methods for isolating a modified peptide from a complex mixture of peptides, the method comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining a proteinaceous preparation from an organism, wherein the preparation comprises modified peptides from two or more different proteins; (b) contacting the preparation with at least one immobilized modification-specific antibody; and (c) isolating at least one modified peptide specifically bound by the immobilized modification-specific antibody in step (b). The method may further comprise the step of (d) characterizing the modified peptide isolated in step (c) by mass spectrometry (MS), tandem mass spectrometry (MS-MS), and/or MS | 09-27-2012 |
20140094594 | Immunoaffinity Isolation of Modified Peptides From Complex Mixtures - The invention provides methods for isolating a modified peptide from a complex mixture of peptides, the method comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining a proteinaceous preparation from an organism, wherein the preparation comprises modified peptides from two or more different proteins; (b) contacting the preparation with at least one immobilized modification-specific antibody; and (c) isolating at least one modified peptide specifically bound by the immobilized modification-specific antibody in step (b). The method may further comprise the step of (d) characterizing the modified peptide isolated in step (c) by mass spectrometry (MS), tandem mass spectrometry (MS-MS), and/or MS | 04-03-2014 |
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20090125146 | Method of and Apparatus for Automated Path Learning - A robot having a force sensor and a tool fixture for operating on a workpiece that may have a complex surface contour is programmed by an operator first teaching the robot by a suitable technique such as lead through teaching a few gross points of the contour. These points, known as guiding points, are used to generate a program to be followed by the robot under the control of the robot controller and using force control during which the robot finalizes the guiding points and teaches one or more points on the contour intermediate adjacent guiding points. The controller or other computing device uses the points so taught to generate the path the robot tool fixture will follow when the tool is to operate on the workpiece. | 05-14-2009 |
20100211204 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION - A method and system to optimize the parameters of a robot used in an assembly process. The assembly process is categorized based on its nature which may be cylindrical, radial and multi-stage insertion. The search pattern and search parameters are specified. The parameters are optimized and the optimized parameter set are verified and when a predetermined criteria such as assembly cycle time set and/or success rate is met the optimization process stops. When the optimization stops the verified parameters are used to cause the robot to perform the categorized assembly process. If the parameters do not meet the predetermined criteria, another round of optimization using the same or other parameters can be performed. | 08-19-2010 |
20120027944 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING CARBON FIBER, THE FILAMENT THEREOF, AND PRE-OXIDIZED FIBER - Processes for producing carbon fibre, the filament thereof and pre-oxidized fibre are provided. In one embodiment, the gel spinning of polyacrylonitrile filament is achieved by using small-molecule gelling agent, and the carbon fibre obtained thereby is increased by 15% to 40% in tensile strength and by 20% to 35% in toughness. In another embodiment, the melt spinning process of polyacrylonitrile is conducted by using imidazole type ion liquid as plasticizer, the process reduces environment pollution, is suitable for industrial production and the fibre produced thereby is improved in its strength. In yet another embodiment, polyacrylonitrile pre-oxidized fibre is produced by melt spinning, so low cost and controllable pre-oxidization of polyacrylonitrile can be achieved. In a further embodiment, high strength carbon fibre is manufactured by using polymer thickening agent. In another further embodiment, low cost and controllable pre-oxidization of polyacrylonitrile is achieved by conducting pre-oxidization before spinning, minimizing skin-core structure, so as to produce high performance carbon fibre, and reduce the production cost of carbon fibre greatly. | 02-02-2012 |
20130073900 | PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUE FOR RAIDS UNDER REBUILD - A method for improving the performance of a RAID under rebuild is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes identifying a RAID requiring rebuild, such as by identifying a RAID having one or more failed storage-drive components. The method then automatically performs the following in response to identifying the RAID: the method identifies hot extents (i.e., extents most heavily accessed) in the RAID; the method migrates the hot extents from the identified failed RAID to a normal RAID not requiring rebuild, such as to an underused RAID; and the method rebuilds the failed RAID. The migration of the hot extents will ideally occur while the RAID is being rebuilt but may also be performed prior to the rebuild process. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed. | 03-21-2013 |
20130343499 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A channel estimation method and apparatus are provided. The channel estimation method includes: extracting pilot data in a received signal; performing pilot channel estimation by using the extracted pilot data to obtain transmission coefficients of multiple groups of pilot channels; and obtaining a transmission coefficient of a data channel through non-linear interpolation processing by using the obtained transmission coefficients of the multiple groups of pilot channels. Solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention help improve the channel estimation precision in a fast time-changing channel environment, thereby improving the system performance. | 12-26-2013 |
20150035196 | PROCESS OF MELT-SPINNING POLYACRYLONITRILE FIBER - Processes for producing carbon fibre, the filament thereof and pre-oxidized fibre are provided. In one embodiment, the gel spinning of polyacrylonitrile filament is achieved by using small-molecule gelling agent, and the carbon fibre obtained thereby is increased by 15% to 40% in tensile strength and by 20% to 35% in toughness. In another embodiment, the melt spinning process of polyacrylonitrile is conducted by using imidazole type ion liquid as plasticizer, the process reduces environment pollution, is suitable for industrial production and the fibre produced thereby is improved in its strength. In yet another embodiment, polyacrylonitrile pre-oxidized fibre is produced by melt spinning, so low cost and controllable pre-oxidization of polyacrylonitrile can be achieved. In a further embodiment, high strength carbon fibre is manufactured by using polymer thickening agent. In another further embodiment, low cost and controllable pre-oxidization of polyacrylonitrile is achieved by conducting pre-oxidization before spinning, minimizing skin-core structure, so as to produce high performance carbon fibre, and reduce the production cost of carbon fibre greatly. | 02-05-2015 |
20150037509 | PROCESS OF MELT-SPINNING POLYACRYLONITRILE FIBER - Processes for producing carbon fibre, the filament thereof and pre-oxidized fibre are provided. In one embodiment, the gel spinning of polyacrylonitrile filament is achieved by using small-molecule gelling agent, and the carbon fibre obtained thereby is increased by 15% to 40% in tensile strength and by 20% to 35% in toughness. In another embodiment, the melt spinning process of polyacrylonitrile is conducted by using imidazole type ion liquid as plasticizer, the process reduces environment pollution, is suitable for industrial production and the fibre produced thereby is improved in its strength. In yet another embodiment, polyacrylonitrile pre-oxidized fibre is produced by melt spinning, so low cost and controllable pre-oxidization of polyacrylonitrile can be achieved. In a further embodiment, high strength carbon fibre is manufactured by using polymer thickening agent. In another further embodiment, low cost and controllable pre-oxidization of polyacrylonitrile is achieved by conducting pre-oxidization before spinning, minimizing skin-core structure, so as to produce high performance carbon fibre, and reduce the production cost of carbon fibre greatly. | 02-05-2015 |
20150217452 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION - A method and system to optimize the parameters of a robot used in an assembly process. The assembly process is categorized based on its nature which may be cylindrical, radial and multi-stage insertion. The search pattern and search parameters are specified. The parameters are optimized and the optimized parameter set are verified and when a predetermined criteria such as assembly cycle time set and/or success rate is met the optimization process stops. When the optimization stops the verified parameters are used to cause the robot to perform the categorized assembly process. If the parameters do not meet the predetermined criteria, another round of optimization using the same or other parameters can be performed. | 08-06-2015 |
20150217453 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION - A method and system to optimize the parameters of a robot used in an assembly process. The assembly process is categorized based on its nature which may be cylindrical, radial and multi-stage insertion. The search pattern and search parameters are specified. The parameters are optimized and the optimized parameter set are verified and when a predetermined criteria such as assembly cycle time set and/or success rate is met the optimization process stops. When the optimization stops the verified parameters are used to cause the robot to perform the categorized assembly process. If the parameters do not meet the predetermined criteria, another round of optimization using the same or other parameters can be performed. | 08-06-2015 |
20160119987 | Driver with open output protection - A load driver for driving a load and an LED module are disclosed. In one embodiment, the load driver comprises a converter circuit comprising a controllable switching element configured to be turned on and off and to perform power factor correction for power from a power supply to the load, wherein a control terminal of the controllable switching element is configured for receiving a startup current via the two output terminals, the controllable switching element configured to be turned on by the startup current. The converter circuit further comprises a first inductor, coupled to the power supply at a first end, and to ground at a second end via the controllable switching element, wherein a first one of the output terminals connects to a second end of the first inductor via a diode forwarded from the first inductor, a second one of the output terminals is coupled to the first end of the first inductor. | 04-28-2016 |
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20100004373 | Compositions and processes for producing durable hydrophobic and/or olephobic surfaces - Coating compositions for producing hydrophobic or super-hydrophobic surfaces and olephobic or super-olephobic surfaces, and to processes for producing such surfaces. In particular, the present invention relates to hydrophobic or olephobic powder coatings and their use for transforming surfaces of articles into hard-to-wet and self-cleaning surfaces. | 01-07-2010 |
20110114019 | DIRECT COATING SOLID DOSAGE FORMS USING POWDERED MATERIALS - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for dry coating solid dosage forms. The method includes the steps of placing solid dosage forms in a rotatable, electrically grounded housing, and spraying a film forming polymer powder composition into the housing during rotation thereof to form a polymer coating on the solid dosage forms, the polymer powder composition being sprayed using an electrostatic spray gun, and curing the coated solid dosage forms. | 05-19-2011 |
20110121113 | APPARATUS FOR UNIFORMLY DISPERSING ADDITIVE PARTICLES IN FINE POWDERS - Blending methods for adding and uniformly mixing a small fraction of relatively small particles (additives) to a bulk particulate powder of larger size than the additives. In particular, the present invention provides blending methods for adding and uniformly mixing a small percentage of flow/fluidization additives into fine powders, especially fine paint powders. The fine powder and additives are first pre-mixed for macro-scale homogeneity and then further mixed at a micro-scale (such as with a screen mixing process) for micro-scale homogeneity. With these methods, optimum dispersions and maximum functionalities of additives can be obtained and the disadvantages caused by severe agglomerates of additives can be avoided. | 05-26-2011 |
20130059946 | BIOCOMPATIBLE POLYMER NANOPARTICLE COATING COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION THEREOF - Biocompatible polymeric coating compositions having nanoscale surface roughness and methods of forming such coatings are described. A polymeric biocompatible coating may be produced using a powder coating method, where one or more thermosetting polymer resins and one or more biocompatible materials are mixed and extruded, ground into microscale particles, and mixed with nanoparticles to form a dry powder mixture that may be coated onto a substrate according to a powder coating method. Alternatively, the thermosetting polymeric resin can be first extruded and ground into microscale particles, and then mixed with the biocompatible materials in particular form of nanoscale to microscale in size, and then further mixed with nanoparticles to form a dry powder mixture for coating. Bioactive materials may also be selectively added into the polymeric coating in a similar way as the biocompatible materials, either before or after the extrusion, to form a bioactive polymeric coating. | 03-07-2013 |
20130123389 | COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING DURABLE HYDROPHOBIC AND/OR OLEPHOBIC SURFACES - A method for forming a coating composition for application to a surface. The method includes forming conglomerates by providing a plurality of nano-sized particles having a mean diameter in a range from about 1 to about 500 nanometers, the nano-sized particles having hydrophobic, super-hydrophobic, olephobic, or super-olephobic properties; mixing the plurality of nano-sized particles with a binding material to form a mixture and heating the mixture to induce curing to bind the nano-sized particles to form a consolidated cake-form material; cooling the consolidated cake-form material and grinding the cake-form material to produce conglomerates having a size in a range from about 1 micron to about 40 microns; and b) mixing the conglomerates with a coating material to be applied to a surface, the binding material being one of a thermosetting resin and a thermoplastic resin having a melting temperature higher than a curing temperature of the coating composition. | 05-16-2013 |
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20090292020 | USE OF CALCIUM SALT OF POLYENOIC ACID IN MEDICAL AND COSMETIC FIELD - The present invention relates to a process for applying calcium polyenoic acid to medical cosmetology, wherein calcium polyenoic acid, calcium octadecadienic acid and calcium calendic acid are made into ointment or oil-type spraying agent for curing burn, scald, sun burn, bedsore, ulcer, cold injury, trauma. The calcium polyenoic acid and auxiliary materials are made into medical aesthetics product not only for resisting crease, anti-acne, removing mottling, exfoliating scrub, reducing pores and scars, sunburn, abrasion, skin injury, cold injury, antifreezing, anti-cracking, anti-older, sunscreen, repairing and regeneration, repairing damaged skin owing to all kinds of reasons, but also for cosmetic whitening, moisturizing, promoting the growth of epithelial cells, hemorrhoids, rhinitis, repairing damaged organization, promoting cell growth, anti-inflammatory, pain relief, mosquito bites, regulating vascular obstruction, thrombosis, wound healing, inflammation, allergic rhinitis, preventing the artery atherosclerosis and thrombosis formation. The present invention is low cost, high safety and has no side effects for popularization. | 11-26-2009 |
20110168791 | OUTDOOR UNIT OF AIR CONDITIONER - The present invention provides an outdoor unit of air conditioner comprising a main body and an electrical component box, a fan motor, a compressor and a condenser which are all installed in the main body. The electrical component box comprises an electrical box cover, an electrical box, and a circuit board on which electrical components and a radiator are installed. The circuit board is disposed in the electrical box, the electrical box cover is installed on top of the electrical box, and a baffle box is disposed between the electrical box and the fan motor. In the outdoor unit of air conditioner of the present invention, the baffle box is disposed between the electrical box and the fan motor, and encloses the electrical box from the fan motor, which keeps the electrical box and the fan motor apart, prevents the fan motor from burning resulting from the fire source in the electrical box and further protects the outdoor unit of air conditioner from burning. | 07-14-2011 |
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20090282148 | SEGMENTED CRC DESIGN IN HIGH SPEED NETWORKS - Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for efficient generation of CRC values in a network environment. Specific embodiments of the present invention enable CRC processing circuits that can generate CRC values at high data throughput rates (e.g., 100 Gbps or greater), while being capable of being implemented on currently available FPGAs. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention may be used in network devices such as routers, switches, hubs, host network interfaces and the like to support high speed data transmission standards such as 100G Ethernet and beyond. | 11-12-2009 |
20090282322 | TECHNIQUES FOR SEGMENTED CRC DESIGN IN HIGH SPEED NETWORKS - Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for efficient generation of CRC values in a network environment. Specific embodiments of the present invention enable CRC processing circuits that can generate CRC values at high data throughput rates (e.g., 100 Gbps or greater), while being capable of being implemented on currently available FPGAs. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention may be used in network devices such as routers, switches, hubs, host network interfaces and the like to support high speed data transmission standards such as 100G Ethernet and beyond. | 11-12-2009 |
20120163389 | TECHNIQUES FOR SELECTING PATHS AND/OR TRUNK PORTS FOR FORWARDING TRAFFIC FLOWS - Techniques that offer enhanced diversity in the selection of paths (e.g., ECMP paths) and/or ports from ports associated with trunks for forwarding data traffic. In one embodiment, one or more functions are used to generate a result. A first portion of the generated result may be used as an index (e.g., ECMP index) for selecting a path (e.g., an ECMP path) from multiple possible paths for forwarding a packet. A second portion of the generated result, different from the first portion, may be used as an index (trunk index) for selecting an output port from multiple output ports associated with a trunk for forwarding a packet. In this manner, selected portions of the generated result may be used as indices, one for selecting a path and another for selecting a trunk port for forwarding packets such that the two indices are not the same and are not dependent upon one another. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166512 | High speed design for division & modulo operations - Techniques for efficiently performing division and modulo operations in a programmable logic device. In one set of embodiments, the division and modulo operations are synthesized as one or more alternative arithmetic operations, such as multiplication and/or subtraction operations. The alternative arithmetic operations are then implemented using dedicated digital signal processing (DSP) resources, rather than non-dedicated logic resources, resident on a programmable logic device. In one embodiment, the programmable logic device is a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and the dedicated DSP resources are pre-fabricated on the FPGA. Embodiments of the present invention may be used in Ethernet-based network devices to support the high-speed packet processing necessary for 100G Ethernet, 32-port (or greater) trunking, 32-port/path (or greater) load balancing (such as 32-path ECMP), and the like. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166760 | HIGH SPEED COUNTER DESIGN - Techniques for incrementing counters in an efficient manner. In one set of embodiments, counter logic circuits are provided that can operate at higher frequencies than existing counter logic circuits, while being capable of being implemented in currently available field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or fabricated using currently available process technologies. The counter logic circuits of the present invention may be used to increment statistics counters in network devices that support line speeds of 40 Gbps, 100 Gbps, and greater. | 06-28-2012 |
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20090144671 | DESIGNING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR YIELD - Method and system for designing integrated circuits for yield are described. Integrated circuits are designed for yield by finding worst yield corners based on design, statistical, and environmental variables and optimizing the design in light of the worst yield corners found. | 06-04-2009 |
20110153271 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HIGH SIGMA YIELD ESTIMATION - For an integrated circuit associated with a plurality of parameters whose values are described by a first probability distribution function, a method for estimating a failure probability includes selecting a first plurality of samples, performing a first test to determine an outcome for each of the first plurality of samples and identifying failed samples, and clustering the failed samples using a computer-implemented cluster forming method that, in some cases, returns multiple clusters. The method also includes forming a probability distribution function for each of the clusters, forming a composite probability distribution function that includes a weighted combination of the first probability distribution function and the probability distribution function for each of the clusters. The method further includes selecting a second plurality of samples using the composite probability distribution function and performing a second test to determine an outcome for each of the second plurality of samples. A failure probability can then be computed. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153272 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HIGH SIGMA YIELD ESTIMATION USING REDUCED DIMENSIONALITY - For an integrated circuit associated with a first plurality of parameters whose values are described by a first probability distribution function, a method for estimating a failure probability includes selecting a first plurality of samples, performing a first test to determine an outcome for each of the first plurality of samples and identifying failed samples. A second plurality of parameters is selected that has fewer parameters than the first plurality of parameters. The failed samples are clustered in the space of the second plurality of parameters using a computer-implemented cluster forming method that, in some cases, returns multiple clusters. The method also includes forming a probability distribution function for each of the clusters, forming a composite probability distribution function that includes a weighted combination of the first probability distribution function and the probability distribution function for each of the clusters. The method further includes selecting a second plurality of samples using the composite probability distribution function and performing a second test to determine an outcome for each of the second plurality of samples. A failure probability can then be computed. | 06-23-2011 |
20120278500 | DELIVERING A VIDEO STREAM - Delivering a video stream is disclosed. A request for the video stream is received. A past portion of the video stream is delivered to a client. The past portion has a marker time that precedes a current time by an interval that corresponds to a buffer length in a client buffer. Receiving a video stream is also disclosed. A request for the video stream is transmitted. A past portion of the video stream is received. The received past portion has a marker time that precedes a current time by an interval that corresponds to a buffer length in a client buffer. | 11-01-2012 |
20140025739 | CENTRALLY COORDINATED PEER ASSIGNMENT - Delivering information over a distribution network using a distribution manager is disclosed. A first source peer is designated at the distribution manager to function as a first content source for a first destination peer. A second source peer is designated at the distribution manager to function as a second content source for a second destination peer. The designation at the distribution manager of the second source peer to function as a second content source for the second destination peer is dependent on an anticipated effect of the designation at the distribution manager of the first content source for the first destination peer. | 01-23-2014 |
20140101326 | DATA CLIENT - Facilitating the distribution of content is disclosed. A request for content is received from a requesting peer. A peer type compatibility criteria is applied to an allocation process that allocates at least one sending peer to deliver the content to the requesting peer. The peer type compatibility criteria ensures that a lightweight peer is paired with a regular peer. | 04-10-2014 |
20140297884 | DELIVERING A VIDEO STREAM - Delivering a video stream is disclosed. A request for the video stream is received. A past portion of the video stream is delivered to a client. The past portion has a marker time that precedes a current time by an interval that corresponds to a buffer length in a client buffer. Receiving a video stream is also disclosed. A request for the video stream is transmitted. A past portion of the video stream is received. The received past portion has a marker time that precedes a current time by an interval that corresponds to a buffer length in a client buffer. | 10-02-2014 |
20140379870 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CACHING STREAMING MULTIMEDIA ON THE INTERNET - An apparatus and method to enhance existing caches in a network to better support streaming media storage and distribution. Helper machines are used inside the network to implement several methods which support streaming media including segmentation of streaming media objects into smaller units, cooperation of Helper machines, and novel placement and replacement policies for segments of media objects. | 12-25-2014 |
20160028849 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CACHING STREAMING MULTIMEDIA ON THE INTERNET - An apparatus and method to enhance existing caches in a network to better support streaming media storage and distribution. Helper machines are used inside the network to implement several methods which support streaming media including segmentation of streaming media objects into smaller units, cooperation of Helper machines, and novel placement and replacement policies for segments of media objects. | 01-28-2016 |
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20080299277 | Sweetening Compositions - This disclosure relates to sweetening compositions that include (1) at least a sweetener selected from the group consisting of sucralose, acesulfame potassium, saccharin, aspartame, a stevia extract, neotame, cyclamate, a Luo Han Guo extract, a polyol, and a mixture thereof; (2) at least a preservative selected from the group consisting of potassium sorbate, sodium sorbate, sodium benzoate, potassium benzoate, methyl gallate, propyl gallate, sodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate, methyl paraben, propyl paraben, and a mixture thereof; and (3) at least an acid selected from the group consisting of citric acid, succinic acid, lactic acid, propionic acid, tartaric acid, tannic acid, phosphoric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, acetic acid, gluconic acid, ascorbic acid, and a mixture thereof. | 12-04-2008 |
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20110173329 | Methods and Apparatus for Coordinated Energy Management in Virtualized Data Centers - A method and system for coordinating energy management in a virtualized data center including a plurality of physical servers and a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), includes analyzing status information about the virtualized data center; determining server utilization target settings for server consolidation from the analyzed status information; and executing the server consolidation according to the determined server utilization target settings. Server consolidation can be executed by determining an effective size of each of the VMs and placing the VMs on the servers in a selective manner using an independent workload VM placement process, a correlation-aware VM placement process, or a migration-cost and correlation-aware VM placement process. | 07-14-2011 |
20120185851 | CALCULATING VIRTUAL MACHINE RESOURCE UTILIZATION INFORMATION - A system and method are provided for estimating physical resource utilization information for virtual machines. The system includes a model which indicates how virtual resource activities are transformed into physical resource activities for each virtual machine running on a server. A run-time calibrator utilizes the model to estimate physical resource utiliation information for each individual virtual machine on the server. | 07-19-2012 |
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 |
20140109112 | Method for Request Profiling in Service Systems with Kernel Events - A method for request profiling in service systems with kernel events includes collecting kernel events traces from a target system, the kernel event traces being obtainable from individual service machines by instrumenting core kernel functions, analyzing kernel event traces for constructing end-to-end request profiling traces consisting of kernel events belonging to service processes, and categorizing request traces responsive to the analyzing with the constructing including grouping requests based on marking kernel events used in the analyzing. | 04-17-2014 |
20140115403 | Method and System for Software System Performance Diagnosis with Kernel Event Feature Guidance - A method includes generating a normal trace in a training stage for the monitored software systems and a monitored trace in the deployment stage for anomaly detection, applying resource transfer functions to traces to convert them to resource features, and system call categorization to traces to convert them to program behavior features, performing anomaly detection in a global scope using the derived resource features and program behavior features, in case the system finds no anomaly, generating no anomaly report, in case the anomaly is found, including the result in an anomaly report; and performing conditional anomaly detection. | 04-24-2014 |
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 |
20160034687 | TRANSPARENT DETECTION AND EXTRACTION OF RETURN-ORIENTED-PROGRAMMING ATTACKS - Systems and methods for detection and prevention of Return-Oriented-Programming (ROP) attacks in one or more applications, including an attack detection device and a stack inspection device for performing stack inspection to detect ROP gadgets in a stack. The stack inspection includes stack walking from a stack frame at a top of the stack toward a bottom of the stack to detect one or more failure conditions, determining whether a valid stack frame and return code address is present; and determining a failure condition type if no valid stack frame and return code is present, with Type III failure conditions indicating an ROP attack. The ROP attack is contained using a containment device, and the ROP gadgets detected in the stack during the ROP attack are analyzed using an attack analysis device. | 02-04-2016 |
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 |
20160063398 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROFILING REQUESTS IN SERVICE SYSTEMS - A system and method for profiling a request in a service system with kernel events including a pre-processing module configured to obtain kernel event traces from the service system and determine starting and ending communication pairs of a request path for a request. A learning module is configured to learn pairwise relationships between the starting and ending communication pairs of training traces of sequential requests. A generation module is configured to generate communication paths for the request path from the starting and ending communication pairs of testing traces of concurrent requests using a heuristic procedure that is guided by the learned pairwise relationships and generate the request path for the request from the communication paths. The system and method precisely determine request paths for applications in a distributed system from kernel event traces even when there are numerous concurrent requests. | 03-03-2016 |
20160086097 | Automatic Discovery of Message Ordering Invariants in Heterogeneous Logs - A method and system are provided. The method includes performing, by a logs-to-time-series converter, a logs-to-time-series conversion by transforming a plurality of heterogeneous logs into a set of time series. Each of the heterogeneous logs includes a time stamp and text portion with one or more fields. The method further includes performing, by a time-series-to-sequential-pattern converter, a time-series-to-sequential-pattern conversion by mining invariant relationships between the set of time series, and discovering sequential message patterns and association rules in the plurality of heterogeneous logs using the invariant relationships. The method also includes executing, by a processor, a set of log management applications, based on the sequential message patterns and the association rules. | 03-24-2016 |
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20120158019 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DIRECTING MOVEMENT OF A TOOL IN HAIR TRANSPLANTATION PROCEDURES - Methods and systems are provided useful in various procedures, including hair harvesting and implantation, and further including computer-implemented and/or robotic hair transplantation. Methodologies are provided which enable a tool, such as a hair harvesting or a hair implantation tool, to proceed at least under a partial computer control in a selected direction of travel along a donor or recipient area of the patient, as well as changing direction of travel based on desired harvesting and/or implantation criteria. | 06-21-2012 |
20130010081 | CALIBRATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF A CAMERA SYSTEM'S COORDINATE SYSTEM - Systems and methods are disclosed that determine a mapping between a first camera system's coordinate system and a second camera system's coordinate system; or determine a transformation between a robot's coordinate system and a camera system's coordinate system, and/or locate, in a robot's coordinate system, a tool extending from an arm of the robot based on the tool location in the camera's coordinate system. The disclosed systems and methods may use transformations derived from coordinates of features found in one or more images. The transformations may be used to interrelate various coordinate systems, facilitating calibration of camera systems, including in robotic systems, such as an image-guided robotic systems for hair harvesting and/or implantation. | 01-10-2013 |
20130190776 | Methods and Systems for Directing Movement of a Tool in Hair Transplantation Procedures - Methods and systems are provided useful in various procedures, including hair harvesting and implantation, and further including computer-implemented and/or robotic hair transplantation. Methodologies are provided which enable selection of follicular unit harvesting or implanting sites. In various cases, such selection may be made using a lowest and closest method, overlap-based methods, position-based methods, pattern-based methods, and/or a combination of these methods. In various combinations of the methods, the output selection from one of the methods may be used as an input for one of the other methods. | 07-25-2013 |
20130287286 | Methods and Systems for Modifying a Parameter of an Automated Procedure - A variety of systems and methods are described which enable quantitative information to be extracted regarding automated procedures, including those performed at a high speed that may require a user input, without having to interrupt the procedure. In addition, these systems and methods serve to provide information on one or more parameters of the automated procedure, whereby they may be modified, if required, to improve the automated procedure or the results from such a procedure. The systems and methods provided are especially useful in automated hair transplantation procedures. | 10-31-2013 |
20140261467 | Systems and Methods for Planning Hair Transplantation - Systems and methods for creating a treatment plan for cosmetic procedures, for example, a hair transplantation procedure, are provided. The treatment plan automatically modifies or generates one or more proposed harvesting or implantation sites within a first hair element based on one or more parameters in one or more second hair elements. Various techniques and methods described in the application provide for improved planning of a natural looking hair. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270422 | Methods and Systems for Hair Transplantation Using Time Constrained Image Processing - Methods and systems are described for hair transplantation and other surgical procedures on a body surface. Specifically, methods and systems for computer-implemented and/or robotic hair transplantation and other surgical procedures, using time constrained image processing techniques are described. In various examples, multiple images of a body surface may be divided into overlapping sub regions for comparison. In various other cases, a percentage of an image of a body surface to be processed may be adjusted based on a time constraint. In some implementations, the output of one of these methods may be used as input for the other method. | 09-18-2014 |
20140276958 | System and Method for Determining the Position of a Hair Tail on a Body Surface - System and method are provided for determining hair tail positions. An image containing hair which is received from an image acquisition device is processed to find a coarse hair tail position. The coarse hair tail position is refined through further processing. The refined hair tail position may be used for accurate positioning, for example, of hair transplantation tools in various hair transplantation applications. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278321 | Systems and Methods for Planning Hair Transplantation - Systems and methods for creating a treatment plan for cosmetic procedures, for example, a hair transplantation procedure, are provided. The treatment plan allows user to provide input on a proposed hair element using a free-hand drawing in a two-dimensional plane, and for the proposed hair element to be generated and displayed on a three-dimensional model of a body surface. Various techniques and methods described in the application provide for improved planning of a natural looking hair. | 09-18-2014 |
20150066054 | Methods and Systems for Directing Movement of a Tool in Hair Transplantation Procedures - Methods and systems are provided useful in various procedures, including hair harvesting and implantation, and further including computer-implemented and/or robotic hair transplantation. Methodologies are provided which enable a tool, such as a hair harvesting or a hair implantation tool, to proceed at least under a partial computer control in a selected direction of travel along a donor or recipient area of the patient, as well as changing direction of travel based on desired harvesting and/or implantation criteria. | 03-05-2015 |
20160035079 | Calibration and Transformation of a Camera System's Coordinate System - Systems and methods are disclosed that determine a mapping between a first camera system's coordinate system and a second camera system's coordinate system; or determine a transformation between a robot's coordinate system and a camera system's coordinate system, and/or locate, in a robot's coordinate system, a tool extending from an arm of the robot based on the tool location in the camera's coordinate system. The disclosed systems and methods may use transformations derived from coordinates of features found in one or more images. The transformations may be used to interrelate various coordinate systems, facilitating calibration of camera systems, including in robotic systems, such as an image-guided robotic systems for hair harvesting and/or implantation. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042512 | Methods and Systems for Hair Transplantation Using Time Constrained Image Processing - Methods and systems are described for hair transplantation and other surgical procedures on a body surface. Specifically, methods and systems for computer-implemented and/or robotic hair transplantation and other surgical procedures, using time constrained image processing techniques are described. In various examples, multiple images of a body surface may be divided into overlapping sub regions for comparison. In various other cases, a percentage of an image of a body surface to be processed may be adjusted based on a time constraint. In some implementations, the output of one of these methods may be used as input for the other method. | 02-11-2016 |
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20140106369 | BIOMARKERS FOR AGGRESSIVE PROSTATE CANCER - The present invention relates to the field of biomarkers and, more specifically, to biomarkers useful in diagnosing aggressive prostate cancer. In specific embodiments, a method for diagnosing aggressive prostate cancer in a patient comprises (a) measuring the levels of one or more biomarkers in a sample collected from the patient; and (b) comparing the levels of the one or more biomarkers with predefined levels of the same biomarkers that correlate to a patient having aggressive prostate cancer and predefined levels of the same biomarkers that correlate to a patient not having aggressive prostate cancer, wherein a correlation to one of the predefined levels provides the diagnosis. In a specific embodiment, the one or more biomarkers may comprise cathepsin-L (CTSL), periostin, microfibrillar-associated protein 4 (MFAP4), collagen XII, neprilysin, clusterin, neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (NGAL), epithelial cell activating molecule (EpCAM), prostate specific antigen (PSA), membrane metallo-endopeptidase (MME) and asporin (ASPN). | 04-17-2014 |
20140135235 | GLYCAN AND GLYCOPEPTIDE CAPTURE AND RELEASE USING REVERSIBLE HYDRAZONE-BASED METHOD - Highly specific and novel methods for reversible hydrazone solid-phase extraction (rHSPE) are provided for glycan or glycopeptide isolation from proteins, peptides, and other contaminants for glycan and glycopeptide analysis. Glycans or glycopeptides in complex mixtures can be conjugated onto solid support or affinity or chemical tags via reversible hydrazone bond. The conjugation methods of the present invention are chemically specific and provide unique means for the removal of other non-glycan containing molecules in the complex sample before the glycans or glycopeptides are hydrolyzed and recovered for analysis. The hydrazone formation and hydrolysis of the novel methods allows for the analysis of glycans and glycopeptides. The hydrazide coating on the solid-phase surfaces are useful for surface glycan capture and on target glycan analysis. Uses of the information generated by the inventive methods for diagnosis and treatment are also disclosed. | 05-15-2014 |
20140193832 | DETECTION OF PROSTATE CANCER USING PSA GLYCOSYLATION PATTERNS - The present invention features novel methods for determining if a subject has prostate cancer. The present invention is based on the development of lectin immunosorbant assays which analyze α2,6-linked sialylation of total serum PSA by | 07-10-2014 |
20150099669 | MASS SPECTROMETRY IMAGING OF GLYCANS FROM TISSUE SECTIONS AND IMPROVED ANALYTE DETECTION METHODS - The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods using mass spectrometry for direct profiling of N-linked glycans from a biological sample. In addition, the embodiments of the present invention also disclose novel methods, known as targeted analyte detection (TAD), for improving the detection limit of MALDI-MS. These methods take advantage of the carrier effect of the added standard analytes, which occurs due to the generic sigmoidal shape of the calibration curve. The functionality of TAD depends on the relative enhancement of sensitivity over the increase of the standard deviation at the analysis of target analytes with spiking in exogenous concentration. At certain ranges of exogenous concentration, the increment in the sensitivity overcomes the standard deviation, resulting in an improved LOD. Theoretically, exogenous concentrations approximately at 1 LODorig would generate the optimum LOD improvement. TAD is a cost-effective LOD improvement method, which is not limited to a certain group of analytes, or detection methods or instruments. It can be applied to enhance the detection of any analyte with different detection methods, provided that the analyte of interest can be extracted or is available in synthetic form. | 04-09-2015 |
20150233903 | SOLID PHASE GLYCAN AND GLYCOPEPTIDE ANALYSIS AND MICROFLUIDIC CHIP FOR GLYCOMIC EXTRACTION, ANALYSIS AND METHODS FOR USING SAME - Highly specific and novel solid phase methods for analyzing glycans and proteoglycans using a solid phase system are provided. The present invention also provides an integrated apparatus and methods of use which comprises a high-throughput glycan isolation and reverse-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) for on-chip glycan extraction, modification and separation. The coverage of detected N-glycans by the GIG-chip-LC apparatus of the present invention can be significantly improved, especially for the low abundant species. Chip-LC by PGC minimizes dynamic range of glycan concentrations in fractions, resulting in detection of low-abundance glycans. Glycan isomers were able to be separated by the chip-LC portion of the apparatus. The GIG-chip-LC apparatus of the present invention can be used to analyze glycans from tissue and sera samples, thus providing a reliable tool for glycomic analysis. The reproducible performance and ability to detect unique glycans from tissue samples provides a powerful means for discovery of abnormal glycans associated with disease states. | 08-20-2015 |
20150241437 | ISOBARIC ALDEHYDE-REACTIVE TAGS FOR AND ANALYSIS OF GLYCANS USING SAME - Highly specific and novel methods for analyzing glycans and proteoglycans are provided. Uses of the information generated by the inventive methods for diagnosis and treatment are also disclosed. | 08-27-2015 |
20150276746 | BIOMARKERS FOR AGGRESSIVE PROSTATE CANCER - The present invention relates to the field of biomarkers. More specifically, the present invention relates to biomarkers useful in diagnosing aggressive prostate cancer. In one embodiment, a method for identifying patients as having or likely to have aggressive prostate cancer comprises the steps of (a) obtaining a biological sample from the patient; (b) performing an assay on the biological sample to detect fucosylated fucosylated DPP-4, sTIE-2, sVEGFR-1, and FUT8; and (c) identifying the patient as having or likely to have aggressive prostate cancer if there is a statistically significant difference in the levels of fucosylated TIMP-1, fucosylated DPP-4, sTIE-2, sVEGFR-1 and FUT8. | 10-01-2015 |
20160069884 | BIOMARKERS FOR DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN AGGRESSIVE PROSTATE CANCER AND NON-AGGRESSIVE PROSTATE CANCER - The present invention relates to the field of biomarkers. More specifically, the present invention relates to biomarkers useful in diagnosing aggressive prostate cancer. In one embodiment, a method for identifying patients as having or likely to have aggressive prostate cancer comprises the steps of (a) performing an assay on a biological sample obtained from the patient to detect fucosylated prostate specific antigen (PSA), transmembrane prostate androgen-induced protein, kallikrein-2, lipid phosphate phosphohydrolase 3, heparan-sulfate 6-O-sulfotransferase, prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), nuclear RNA export factor 2, and protein POF1B; and (b) identifying the patient as having or likely to have aggressive prostate cancer if there is a statistically significant difference in the levels of fucosylated PSA, transmembrane prostate androgen-induced protein, kallikrein-2, lipid phosphate phosphohydrolase 3, heparan-sulfate 6-O-sulfotransferase, PAP, nuclear RNA export factor 2, and protein POF1B as compared to corresponding levels in a control sample that correlates to non-aggressive prostate cancer. | 03-10-2016 |