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20090005292 | Novel Peptides that Bind to the Erythropoietin Receptor - The present invention relates to peptide compounds that are agonists of the erythropoietin receptor (EPO-R). The invention further relates to therapeutic methods using such peptide compounds to treat disorders associated with insufficient or defective red blood cell production. Pharmaceutical compositions, which comprise the peptide compounds of the invention, are also provided. | 01-01-2009 |
20090048147 | NITROGEN-BASED LINKERS FOR ATTACHING MODIFYING GROUPS TO POLYPEPTIDES AND OTHER MACROMOLECULES - The present invention relates to a compound comprising a peptide moiety, a linker moiety and a water-soluble polymer moiety such as a poly(ethylene glycol) moiety. The linker moiety is between the peptide moiety and the water-soluble polymer moiety. In certain embodiments, the linker moiety has the structure: | 02-19-2009 |
20090131317 | COMPOUNDS AND PEPTIDES THAT BIND THE TRAIL RECEPTOR - The present invention relates to peptides and compounds that bind to a TRAIL receptor or otherwise act as a TRAIL receptor agonist, as well as methods of treating human diseases using the same. In addition, methods of synthesizing the peptides and compounds described herein are provided by the present invention. | 05-21-2009 |
20110282029 | NOVEL PEPTIDES THAT BIND TO THE ERYTHROPOIETIN RECEPTOR - The present invention relates to peptide compounds that are agonists of the erythropoietin receptor (EPO-R). The invention further relates to therapeutic methods using such peptide compounds to treat disorders associated with insufficient or defective red blood cell production. Pharmaceutical compositions, which comprise the peptide compounds of the invention, are also provided. | 11-17-2011 |
20120157660 | NOVEL PEPTIDES THAT BIND TO THE ERYTHROPOIETIN RECEPTOR - The present invention relates to peptide compounds that are agonists of the erythropoietin receptor (EPO-R). The invention further relates to therapeutic methods using such peptide compounds to treat disorders associated with insufficient or defective red blood cell production. Pharmaceutical compositions, which comprise the peptide compounds of the invention, are also provided. | 06-21-2012 |
20120165275 | Nitrogen-Based Linkers for Attaching Modifying Groups to Polypeptides and Other Macromolecules - Compounds comprising a peptide moiety, a linker moiety and a water-soluble polymer moiety such as a poly(ethylene glycol) moiety are disclosed. Various linker moieties for use in these compounds are also disclosed, along methods for their synthesis. | 06-28-2012 |
20130012685 | NOVEL PEPTIDES THAT BIND TO THE ERYTHROPOIETIN RECEPTOR - The present invention relates to peptide compounds that are agonists of the erythropoietin receptor (EPO-R). The invention further relates to therapeutic methods using such peptide compounds to treat disorders associated with insufficient or defective red blood cell production. Pharmaceutical compositions, which comprise the peptide compounds of the invention, are also provided. | 01-10-2013 |
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20080300974 | Flexible Revenue Sharing and Referral Bounty System - An advertising system manager, a partner and one or more participating publishers may collectively agree on a revenue sharing arrangement, based on revenue generated from ad conversions. The advertising system manager may define various components of the revenue sharing arrangement including details of the revenue sharing arrangement and the criteria for offering the revenue sharing arrangement. The partner may separately negotiate with the publisher with respect to the terms of the revenue sharing arrangement. The terms may include a predetermined revenue sharing rate for the partner and the publisher based on the gross revenue received by the advertising system manager. | 12-04-2008 |
20090094108 | Flexible Revenue Sharing and Referral Bounty System - An advertising system manager, a partner and one or more participating publishers may collectively agree on a revenue sharing arrangement, based on revenue generated from ad conversions, for revenue sharing between publishers and partners such as content providers distributing embedded content links to publishers through the advertising system manager. The advertising system manager may define various components of the revenue sharing arrangement including details of the revenue sharing arrangement and the criteria for offering the revenue sharing arrangement. The partner may separately negotiate with the publisher with respect to the terms of the revenue sharing arrangement. The terms may include a predetermined revenue sharing rate for the partner and the publisher based on the gross revenue received by the advertising system manager. | 04-09-2009 |
20100299611 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNITY CENTRIC RESOURCE SHARING BASED ON A PUBLISHING SUBSCRIPTION MODEL - The invention provides a Web service which enables a publisher to share his digital resources such as an address card or a calendar with a number of subscribers based on different sharing relationships. The Web service includes a host-based interface called “My Community”, for example, with which the publisher manages the share-relationships with his community members. The community members are organized into different groups. Each group includes a number of community members who have a common sharing relationship with the publisher with respect to one or more views of the shared resources. A resource may have multiple views. Each of the views has Metadata describing sharing-styles, as well as version, creation date, size, and the like. Each sharing style corresponds to a specific sharing relationship between a community member and the publisher. | 11-25-2010 |
20120324364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNITY CENTRIC RESOURCE SHARING BASED ON A PUBLISHING SUBSCRIPTION MODEL - The invention provides a Web service which enables a publisher to share his digital resources such as an address card or a calendar with a number of subscribers based on different sharing relationships. The Web service includes a host-based interface called “My Community”, for example, with which the publisher manages the share-relationships with his community members. The community members are organized into different groups. Each group includes a number of community members who have a common sharing relationship with the publisher with respect to one or more views of the shared resources. A resource may have multiple views. Each of the views has Metadata describing sharing-styles, as well as version, creation date, size, and the like. Each sharing style corresponds to a specific sharing relationship between a community member and the publisher. | 12-20-2012 |
20130138487 | DISTRIBUTING CONTENT - Systems and processes are provided for reviewing content items selected for distribution to content distribution slots. A publisher associated with a content distribution slot can search for content items that have selected attributes, review the content items, and select whether a content item is approved for distribution to the content distribution slot. | 05-30-2013 |
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20110289108 | Assisted Hybrid Mobile Browser - A system and a method are disclosed for identifying video files on a webpage and streaming video files to a client device. A server receives browsing data including uniform resource locator for a webpage and identifies missing videos on the webpage. The server identifies a source file for the missing videos including identifying a location for each missing video. The server retrieves a thumbnail for each missing video and provides it to a client device. Additionally, the server transcodes the video file responsive to a user input provided by a user. The transcoded video is streamed to the client device. | 11-24-2011 |
20120131138 | Client-Selected Network Services - A system and a method are disclosed for authenticating a user request to determine whether to optimize content requested by the user based on a user profile, a network provider profile, network conditions and the user's service level with an application requesting the content. A user profile provides, for example a data rate plan subscribed to by the user, the user's device type, etc. Network provider profile provides whether the network provider has subscribed to optimization services. Similarly, user's service level provides whether the application is subscribed to receive optimized data. If the user, the network and the application provide for optimization or if the network is congested or busy, the user is provided with a destination address wherein the user may retrieve optimized content. | 05-24-2012 |
20120137221 | Web Browser Toolbar - A system and a method are disclosed for displaying page elements embedded on a webpage displayed on a handheld computing device. Tools provide one or more functionality to a user, including an ability to view a webpage, to share a webpage, to view webpages within a domain that are popular with the user's connection in a social networking system, etc. The tools are received and rendered within a toolbar interface including a toolbar icon for each tool. The tool interfaces associated with each icon may be displayed on the handheld computing device automatically or responsive to a user request. | 05-31-2012 |
20120263241 | Real-Time Audio or Video Transcoding - A system and a method are disclosed for transcoding video files on a server such that they can be streamed to a client device in substantially real-time. The server receives a video file a uses a prediction algorithm to predict each video frame's size based on encoding and streaming parameters associated with the input file and an output stream and transcoding each video frame. If a transcoded frame is too large, it is compressed further, if it is too small, the video file is padded. As such, each video frame transcoded or padded until the encoded frame is the same size as a predicted size. The transcoded frames are streamed to a client device to enable the client to device to playback the video after requesting it from the server. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265847 | Real-Time Video Detector - A request to retrieve data from a client device is intercepted by a video detector. The video detector determines if the request is for retrieving a video file. If the request is for a video file, and the video file is deemed to be transcoded to be displayed on the client device, the video detector forwards the request to a video optimizer along with encoding parameters. Encoding parameters are selected by the video detector based on properties of the client device, networks accessible by the client device, conditions of those networks, properties of the requested video and the type of video requested. The encoding parameters also include a file format type to which the requested video is to be transcoded. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265901 | Real-Time Video Optimizer - A video optimizer receives a request to optimize a video, wherein the request includes optimization parameters and a uniform resource locator (URL) of the video. The video optimizer retrieves the video from an origin server and transcodes the video based on optimization parameters. The video optimizer load balances several transcoding sessions over one or more servers and tracks each session based on session identifications (IDs). Additionally, the video optimizer tracks each session to determine when a server is at or near capacity to prevent an overflow situation. The video optimizer is also enabled to stitch together two or more transcoding sessions in the event of a seek operation by a user during video playback. The video optimizer streams the video to the client device, enabling the client device to stream videos in substantially real-time after requesting the video. | 10-18-2012 |
20130262481 | ASSISTED HYBRID MOBILE BROWSER - A system and a method are disclosed for identifying video files on a webpage and streaming video files to a client device. A server receives browsing data including uniform resource locator for a webpage and identifies missing videos on the webpage. The server identifies a source file for the missing videos including identifying a location for each missing video. The server retrieves a thumbnail for each missing video and provides it to a client device. Additionally, the server transcodes the video file responsive to a user input provided by a user. The transcoded video is streamed to the client device. | 10-03-2013 |
20130282874 | REAL-TIME VIDEO DETECTOR - A request to retrieve data from a client device is intercepted by a video detector. The video detector determines if the request is for retrieving a video file. If the request is for a video file, and the video file is deemed to be transcoded to be displayed on the client device, the video detector forwards the request to a video optimizer along with encoding parameters. Encoding parameters are selected by the video detector based on properties of the client device, networks accessible by the client device, conditions of those networks, properties of the requested video and the type of video requested. The encoding parameters also include a file format type to which the requested video is to be transcoded. | 10-24-2013 |
20130322242 | Real-Time Network Monitoring and Subscriber Identification with an On-Demand Appliance - A system and a method are disclosed for selectively monitoring traffic in a service provider network. The system receives a notice for a beginning of a network data flow, which responds to a request from a user device for content at an origin server. The system then determines whether to monitor the data flow from the origin server to the user device. If so determined, the system collects statistic information of the data flow and stores the statistic information to a flow record in a database. The system also maps the flow record to a subscriber of the service provider network by analyzing the statistic information of the data flow and estimates bandwidth provided to the data flow by the service provider's network based on the analysis of the statistic information of the data flow. | 12-05-2013 |
20140254380 | Real-Time Network Monitoring and Subscriber Identification with an On-Demand Appliance - A system and a method are disclosed for selectively monitoring traffic in a service provider network. The system receives a notice for a beginning of a network data flow, which responds to a request from a user device for content at an origin server. The system then determines whether to monitor the data flow from the origin server to the user device. If so determined, the system collects statistic information of the data flow and stores the statistic information to a flow record in a database. The system also maps the flow record to a subscriber of the service provider network by analyzing the statistic information of the data flow and estimates bandwidth provided to the data flow by the service provider's network based on the analysis of the statistic information of the data flow. | 09-11-2014 |
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20090213733 | ROLE DETERMINATION FOR NETWORK DEVICES - Techniques for selecting authentication roles when establishing a link between devices in a secure network are provided. By assigning role levels to devices, devices may be more likely to assume a preferred role when establishing a link. For example, during a negotiation process, each device may establish a timer value based on their role level. Each device may initiate a timer with the timer value and, the device whose timer value expires first may assume a role as authenticator. | 08-27-2009 |
20100023724 | Network Based Virtualization Performance - The disclosed embodiments support improvements in network performance in networks such as storage area networks. This is particularly important in networks such as those implementing virtualization. These improvements, therefore, support improved mechanisms for performing processing in network devices such as switches, routers, or hosts. These improvements include various different mechanisms which may be used separately or in combination with one another. These mechanisms include methods and apparatus for processing traffic in an arbitrated loop, performing striping to support fairness and/or loop tenancy, performing configuration of network devices such as switches to enable virtualization to be performed closest to the storage device (e.g., disk), ascertaining a CPU efficiency that quantifies the impact of virtualization on a processor, and configuring or accessing a striped volume to account for metadata stored in each storage partition. | 01-28-2010 |
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20110222700 | ADAPTIVE ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION SYSTEM - A system includes a noise detector configured to identify undesirable noise components in an acoustic signal and a noise energy profiler configured to analyze the identified undesirable noise components and generate a noise energy profile. In the system, a cancelation profile generator is configured to generate a noise cancelation profile based at least in part on information in the noise energy profile, and a cancelation profile effector is configured to translate the noise cancelation profile into values for a programmable circuit. | 09-15-2011 |
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20130219526 | Security System and Methods for Integrated Devices - Systems and methods for implementing security mechanisms in integrated devices and related structures. This method can include validating a device ID, generating a random value based on selected seed parameters, performing logic operations from hardware using the random value, and validating the integrated device based on logic operations from software using the random value. The system can include executable instructions for performing the method in a computing system. Various embodiments of the present invention represent several implementations of a security mechanism for integrated devices. These implementations provide several levels of encryption or protection of integrated devices, which can be tailored depending on the hardware and/or software requirements of specific applications. | 08-22-2013 |
20140012531 | SINGLE POINT OFFSET CALIBRATION FOR INERTIAL SENSORS - A hand-held processor system for processing data from an integrated MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems) device disposed within a hand-held computer system and methods therefor. The Single Point Offset Correction (SPOC) process computes offset values to calibrate MEMS sensors using a single set of data measurements at an orientation without dynamic perturbation, and without requiring advance knowledge of orientation of the device. Arbitrary output biases, which are known to be dominant on a single axis, can be corrected to ensure consistent performance. The SPOC process provides a simple method to effectively calibrate a MEMS sensor without requiring extensive system resources. This process can be enhanced by additional estimations of sensor offsets using the set of data measurements or by use of rule-based empirical gain factors. | 01-09-2014 |
20140025330 | DYNAMIC TEMPERATURE CALIBRATION - A hand-held processor system for processing data from an integrated MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems) device disposed within a hand-held computer system and methods therefor. The Dynamic Temperature Correction (DTC) process computes offset values to calibrate MEMS sensors using a single set of data measurements at an orientation without dynamic perturbation and one or more temperature data measurements, and without requiring advance knowledge of orientation of the device. Arbitrary output biases, which are known to be dominant on a single axis, can be corrected to ensure consistent performance. The DTC process provides a simple method to effectively calibrate a MEMS sensor without requiring extensive system resources. This process can be enhanced by additional estimations of sensor offsets using the set of data measurements or by use of rule-based empirical gain factors. | 01-23-2014 |