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20130031169 | CONDITIONAL LOCATION-BASED REMINDERS - Architecture that enables conditional location-based notifications. One or multiple factors (filter criteria) can be considered, and triggering of a notification can be based on some or all of the factors. Those factors can be static (e.g., time based) or dynamic (e.g., a previous user location) and extend the ability to filter unnecessary notifications, and thus, increase user satisfaction. The filter criteria can include checking user back balance, and calendar as prerequisites to sending a notification. | 01-31-2013 |
20130045729 | LOCATION-BASED PROMOTION OF APPLICATIONS - Architecture that integrates location-based information and application-driven devices (e.g., cell phones). Users can now be provided the most relevant application and/or application data based on the user location. Thus, users are assisted in finding the relevant application(s) to accomplish a task based on their current location. More specifically, given a location (e.g., business) registered to a service, the user's client application is automatically updated to comprise the data relevant to that location. Alternatively, or in combination therewith, the service can suggest installing a new application relevant to the location. | 02-21-2013 |
20130117266 | GEO-FENCE BASED ON GEO-TAGGED MEDIA - Architecture that creates a geo-fence based on geo-tagged item (e.g., a photo. The geo-tagged item can be used to share virtual boundaries, such as geo-fences, between users via conventional methods (e.g., email) for sharing digital media. An extraction component that extracts geolocation information (e.g., latitude and longitude coordinates, altitude, bearing, distance, place names, etc.) of a geo-tagged item. The geolocation information can be related to a geographical location at which the item is geo-tagged. A boundary component then creates a virtual boundary (e.g., geo-fence) in association with the geographical location and based on the geolocation information. Thereafter, the virtual boundary is triggered when the user crosses (e.g., engages, intersects) the boundary and the attached action is triggered. The geo-tagged item can be shared with another user, which when is processed, creates a virtual boundary for that other user. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117292 | CONNECTION OF USERS BY GEOLOCATION - Architecture that enables discovery and communications between users that have common interests (e.g., visited the same place). For example, when users arrive at a geographic location (e.g., a business) at various times, the users are registered (automatically or manually) via a location-based service. A user can register at the location so other users may discover the user by association to the same location and according to concurrent (all or a portion of overlap of time) visitation. The registration process creates visit information of a visiting user, and a history component stores the visit information and provides access to the visit information according to user access preferences. The architecture further enables searches to be performed over the visit information by users to find other users who visited the location at the same time, to find potential new friends, and also suggest other users who match the user profile preferences. | 05-09-2013 |
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20150242638 | PRIVACY CONTROL FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for providing and/or applying privacy preferences for an entity. A multimedia device, such as a mobile phone, may capture multimedia content associated with an entity (e.g., a photo of a person at a restaurant). The multimedia device may identify a privacy preference for the entity. In an example, the person may be wearing a privacy object that may be recognized as corresponding to the privacy preference. In another example, a device associated with the person may emit a signal that may specify a privacy preference for the person and/or may be used by the multimedia device to identify the person (e.g., the identity may be used to query a service to obtain a privacy preference specified for the person). The privacy preference may be applied to the multimedia content (e.g., a no photography privacy preference, a no tagging privacy preference, etc.). | 08-27-2015 |
20150332334 | PERSONALIZED GROUP COUPONS AND OFFERS WITH USER EXPERIENCE - A user experience (UX) that enables viewing and identification of other people in the user network of friends, that received a group coupon, and the participation status of the friends. The UX enables the user to chat with the people in the user's network of friends about a specific coupon that was received, enables the creation of a group of friends and the adding of another friend with high density friendship of shared common interests and/or location based on specific offer content, enables granularity on a sub-group of friends based on joint interests, the controlled exposure to the user that received the group coupon offer, the identity of other users in his group that got this coupon offer, controlled exposure to the user that received the group coupon offer, the identity of other users in his group that committed to buy the coupon, and if the group will redeem the coupon. | 11-19-2015 |
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20140181715 | DYNAMIC USER INTERFACES ADAPTED TO INFERRED USER CONTEXTS - A device comprising a set of environment detectors may detect various environmental properties (e.g., location, velocity, and vibration), and may infer from these environmental properties a current context of the user (e.g., the user's attention availability, privacy, and accessible input and output modalities). Based on the current context, the device may adjust the presentation of various user interface elements of an application. For example, the velocity and vibration level detected by the device may enable an inference of the mode of transport of the user (e.g., stationary, walking, jogging, driving a car, or riding on a bus), and each mode of transport may suggest the user's available input modality (e.g., text, touch, speech, or gaze tracking) and/or output modality (e.g., high-detail visual, simplified visual, or audible), and the application may select and present corresponding element presentations for input and output user interface elements, and/or the detail of presented content. | 06-26-2014 |
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20090116027 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF MOLECULES - A THz. spectrometer a includes an adjustable resonator situated between two parabolic mirrors at least one being movable with a stepper motor to create a resonance chamber. A terahertz source irradiated the chamber and a mixer which also receives a signal modulated by the sample in the resonance chamber. | 05-07-2009 |
20090139331 | Accelerometer - A 3-dimensional MEMS accelerometer fabricated on a single planar substrate deploys three co-planar sensor elements. Each sensor element is a capacitive device deploying a static electrode plate and a parallel dynamic electrode plate supported by a torsion beam. The dynamic electrode plate also includes a proof mass portion that displaces the center of gravity to below the plane of the plate. Two of the sensor elements are identical and rotated by 90 degrees on the planar substrate. The third capacitive sensor has two pairs of adjacent capacitive plates, each one having a dynamic electrode plate is suspended by a torsion beam. The proof mass on each dynamic electrode plates however is offset laterally from the torsion axis in opposite directions from the other plates to cancel the their respective capacitance charges induced by in-plane acceleration. However, this arrangement also adds the capacitive change induced by acceleration orthogonal to the planar substrate. | 06-04-2009 |
20100036450 | Carbon Nano-tube Power Cell - A device which converts mechanical deformation in electrical current, these mechanical deformations are generated as a result of liquid pressure over a part of the device. This device is integrated within an implantable lead and inserted into the cardiovascular system of a patient. The purpose of the device is to charge a battery which stores energy for various uses of other implantable devices. | 02-11-2010 |
20100112614 | Coupled Antenna Impedance Spectroscopy - It has been found advantageous to deploy coiled antennas as transmitters and receivers for acquiring the dielectric spectrum of materials. This method of impendence spectroscopy has been used to determine the concentration of glucose and other small polar molecules in vitro, as well as in vivo by placement on the antennas so that transmission is through the tissue, as for example on opposite sides of an organ or body part. The optimum selection of antenna coils permits deeper penetration into tissue for glucose detection, improves the SNR as well as expands the spectral range for greater accuracy and precision, to enable continuous non-invasive monitoring for either improved patient or automated management of diabetes. | 05-06-2010 |
20100237747 | Piezoelectric Composite Material - A composition of matter having multiple layers of different conductors separated by thin layers of dielectric materials has a high piezoelectric coefficient when the conductors are metals having a significant difference in work function and the dielectric materials have a low elastic modulus when the metal layers are connected to form a capacitive circuit. Alternatively, when the conductors are semi-conductors they should have a significant difference in Fermi levels. | 09-23-2010 |
20110282192 | MULTIMODAL DEPTH-RESOLVING ENDOSCOPE - A fiber-optic multimodal multi-spectral (MS), Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), photoacoustic (PA) endoscope with beam scanning by a two-dimensional Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) scanner present in the endoscopic head, combined in a synergetic way in a single endoscopic system. The PA, OCT and MS light sources are coupled to the endoscopic head through an optical switcher. Using a single optical endoscopic head and an electro-optical switch the endoscope of the invention is capable of sequential or parallel MS, OCT and PA imaging. The endoscope provides real-time imaging with a rate of 5 to 60 frames per second for each of the three imaging modalities. | 11-17-2011 |
20120241616 | META MATERIALS INTEGRATION, DETECTION AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS - A detector and modulator of electromagnetic radiation is 3-dimensional structure made of substantially 2 dimensional high impedance metamaterial surfaces stacked one above the other with a dielectric layer in between and located above a conducting ground plane. Each 2 dimension surface may be formed by an open continuous conductive trace, such as metallic wire or a printed circuit line, which is cast or plated on or into a 2-D periodic arrangement of an element that belongs to the Hilbert space filling curves. | 09-27-2012 |
20130337492 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME, NON-INVASIVE MONITORING OF A BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL IN A SEALED CONTAINER - A biological material such as platelets is sealed inside a container with a dead space to accommodate a metabolic gas. The concentration of the gas in the dead space is monitored while the container remains sealed. In some embodiments, the container is permeable to the gas. In other embodiments, the biological material is the only growth medium in the container. The disposal of the biological material is in accordance with the monitored gas concentration. Preferably, the gas concentration is measured spectroscopically. A container for a biological material includes a main body that retains the biological material but that is permeable to a gas and a reservoir in fluid communication with the main body that is transparent to an optical wavelength that is absorbed by the gas. | 12-19-2013 |
20150099274 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USE IN MONITORING BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL - An optical system for determining the concentration of a metabolic gas in a container sealed to biological contamination and enclosing a biological material. The optical system has a broadly tunable coherent infrared light source, a detection module, and a control system connected to the light source and detection module and operates the light source, to receive and analyze the data provided by said detection module, and to process the data indicative of the concentration of said metabolic gas in said sealed container. | 04-09-2015 |
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20080220862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE GENERATION OF NAVIGATION GRAPHS IN REAL-TIME - A system and method for navigation graph generation in real time is provided including a dictionary operable to maintain information mapping surface features to navigational costs. Further included is a graphical module operable to transform geometrical data of a virtual world and associated navigational costs obtained from the dictionary into navigation data; a graph-generation module operable to translate the navigation data into a semi-generated navigation graph; and a physical module operable to receive the semi-generated navigation graph, and generate an updated navigation graph based on collisions test. | 09-11-2008 |
20090013090 | Techniques for Path Finding and Terrain Analysis - A system for path finding and terrain analysis. The system includes at least one processing unit, a graph processing unit and an artificial intelligence logic unit. A local bus is coupled to the at least one processing unit, the graph processing unit, the artificial intelligence unit and a bus interface unit. A memory bus is coupled to said bus interface unit, the at least one processing unit, a data memory, and a program memory. The graph processing unit further includes a network of interconnected nodes. Each of said nodes have at least one digitally programmable delay unit. | 01-08-2009 |
20100235608 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GAME PHYSICS CONCURRENT COMPUTATIONS - An apparatus for physical properties computation comprising an array processor. The array processor comprises of a plurality of processing elements, said processing elements arranged in a grid. A processing unit (PU) is coupled to the array processor. A local memory is coupled to the PU. The PU broadcasts data to rows of said processing elements in said grid, and performs physical computations in an order of complexity of O((√N) log N). | 09-16-2010 |
20140244972 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GAME PHYSICS CONCURRENT COMPUTATIONS - An apparatus for physical properties computation comprising an array processor. The array processor comprises of a plurality of processing elements, said processing elements arranged in a grid. A processing unit (PU) is coupled to the array processor. A local memory is coupled to the PU. The PU broadcasts data to rows of said processing elements in said grid, and performs physical computations in an order of complexity of O((√N) log N). | 08-28-2014 |