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20110140866 | WIRELESS AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE LOG - A method of aircraft maintenance involves storing part information relating to an aircraft part on the aircraft part. The part information is wirelessly transmitting from the aircraft part to a receiver. A note of a change relating to the aircraft part is made. The part information with the note of the change relating to the aircraft part is electronically stored at a location remote from the aircraft part. | 06-16-2011 |
20120305652 | RFID TAG SYSTEM - An RFID tag system includes a housing that includes an enclosed sidewall and forms a recess with a housing base surface, where the housing is configured and arranged to be mounted to a mounting surface. An RFID tag is located within the housing, and the RFID tag comprises an integrated circuit, an antenna and a metal backplane, where the housing base surface separates the antenna and the metal backplane. A metal surface is secured to a top surface of the sidewall to cover the recess, where the metal surface and a transmission path from the integrated circuit to the antenna are electromagnetically coupled and tuned to operate across a wide band frequency range. The metal surface may include a name plate of a data plate for a gas turbine engine, or a component thereof. | 12-06-2012 |
20120330495 | MFCC AND CELP TO DETECT TURBINE ENGINE FAULTS - A fault detection and diagnosis method for a gas turbine engines comprises collecting a sensor signal from an acoustic or vibrational sensor at the gas turbine engine, pre-processing the sensor signal to remove predictable background, and extracting a feature set from the sensor signal using Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) algorithms and/or Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) algorithms. Fault and non-fault states are reported based on comparison between the feature set and a library of fault and non-fault feature profiles corresponding to fault and non-fault states of the gas turbine engine. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330499 | ACOUSTIC DIAGNOSTIC OF FIELDED TURBINE ENGINES - A method for diagnosing faults in an aircraft gas turbine engine comprises gathering an acoustic profile from an on-wing turbine, transmitting the acoustic profile to an analysis system, comparing the acoustic profile with known fault profiles, and scheduling maintenance steps based on whether the acoustic profile matches one or more of the known fault profiles. The known fault profiles are retrieved from a library of the analysis system. | 12-27-2012 |
20130037617 | RFID TAG SYSTEM - An identification system for machinery or equipment, such as an aircraft engine, includes a name plate, a mounting bracket for mounting the name plate, a housing, and an RFID tag positioned within the housing between the name plate and the mounting bracket. The RFID tag includes an integrated circuit and an antenna such as a patch antenna. | 02-14-2013 |
20130324148 | PRODUCT POSITION TRACKING SYSTEM - An engine frame comprises an engine support structure and a communication device with a serial number and a wireless transceiver. The engine support structure is configured to support an engine for maintenance or transport. The communication device is configured to determine a location of the engine frame, and broadcast a report message including the location of the engine frame and the serial number to a remote server via the wireless transceiver. | 12-05-2013 |
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20150312209 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK ADDRESSING - An improved computer system for maintaining a network connection with a remote computer by providing persistent network addressing system, the improved computer system comprising: a local computer that includes: at least one processor; a local routable address; and a memory device that stores a persistent address application, the at least one processor being adapted by the persistent address application to: receive a first request, from a requesting application, to send a first outbound data to a remote computer, the remote computer including: at least one remote processor, a remote routable address, and a remote memory device; send the first outbound data to the remote computer based at least in part on the local and remote routable addresses; and present at least one of the following to the requesting application: a local persistent address as the local routable address, where the local persistent address is configured to remain the same while the local routable address changes; and a remote persistent address as the remote routable address, where the remote persistent address is configured to remain the same while the remote routable address changes; where the persistent address application utilizes network implementation details while allowing the requesting application to bypass network implementation details. A method for providing persistent network addressing comprising: receiving, at a local computer that includes: at least one processor; a local routable address; and a memory device that stores a persistent address application, a first request, from a requesting application, to send a first outbound data to a remote computer, the remote computer including: at least one remote processor; a remote routable address; and a remote memory device; sending, by way of the at least one processor being adapted by the persistent address application, the first outbound data to the remote computer based at least in part on the local and remote routable address; and presenting, by way of the at least one processor being adapted by the persistent address application, at least one of the following to the requesting application: a local persistent address as the local routable address, where the local persistent address is configured to remain the same while the local routable address changes; a remote persistent address as the remote routable address, where the remote persistent address is configured to remain the same while the remote routable address changes; and where the persistent address application utilizes network implementation details while allowing the requesting application to bypass network implementation details. | 10-29-2015 |
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20080276948 | Chewing article for oral tobacco delivery - A chewing article for oral tobacco delivery includes a mouth portion and a handle portion. Preferably, the mouth portion includes a mouthpiece containing tobacco material and a cap. The mouthpiece includes at least one perforation that selectively releases the enclosed tobacco material when chewed, sucked, or manipulated. The handle portion is attached to the mouth portion. | 11-13-2008 |
20090004329 | Chewable pouch for flavored product delivery - Provided is a disintegrable or non-disintegrable oral flavor delivery product. The product includes a disintegrable or non-disintegrable chewable pouch with a plurality of perforations. The pouch encloses a non-tobacco flavor product that can be in a gel, semi-liquid, and/or liquid form. A user chews, sucks, and/or manipulates the pouch to cause the enclosed flavor product to leach out of the perforations into the user's mouth. | 01-01-2009 |
20090038631 | Oral tobacco product having a hydrated membrane coating and a high surface area - Provided is a moist smokeless tobacco product including a hydrated membrane coating and a portion of tobacco material. Preferably, the tobacco material is pre-portioned and formed to include at least one dimple and/or at least one hole through the tobacco material so as to increase the surface area of the tobacco product. | 02-12-2009 |
20110100382 | ORAL MOIST SMOKELESS TOBACCO PRODUCTS WITH NET-STRUCTURED GEL COATING AND METHODS OF MAKING - Oral tobacco products having a gel-coating and methods for making are provided. The method includes (a) molding a portion of tobacco material to form a pre-portioned piece of tobacco material, the tobacco material comprising moist smokeless tobacco; (b) contacting the pre-portioned piece of tobacco material with a gel-coating solution to form a gel-coating comprising at least one polymer on an outer surface of the pre-portioned piece of tobacco material to form a gel-coated oral tobacco product, said gel-coating comprising an inner surface disposed around the pre-portioned piece of tobacco material and an outer surface; and (c) forming one or more of perforations, uncoated areas and holes in the gel-coating of the oral tobacco product to form a gel-coated oral tobacco product. | 05-05-2011 |
20110318450 | CHEWABLE POUCH FOR FLAVORED PRODUCT DELIVERY - Provided is a disintegrable or non-disintegrable oral flavor delivery product. The product includes a disintegrable or non-disintegrable chewable pouch with a plurality of perforations. The pouch encloses a non-tobacco flavor product that can be in a gel, semi-liquid, and/or liquid form. A user chews, sucks, and/or manipulates the pouch to cause the enclosed flavor product to leach out of the perforations into the user's mouth. | 12-29-2011 |
20130061859 | ORAL TOBACCO PRODUCT HAVING A HYDRATED MEMBRANE COATING AND A HIGH SURFACE AREA - Provided is a moist smokeless tobacco product including a hydrated membrane coating and a portion of tobacco material. Preferably, the tobacco material is pre-portioned and formed to include at least one dimple and/or at least one hole through the tobacco material so as to increase the surface area of the tobacco product. | 03-14-2013 |
20130149254 | CHEWABLE POUCH FOR FLAVORED PRODUCT DELIVERY - Provided is a disintegrable or non-disintegrable oral flavor delivery product. The product includes a disintegrable or non-disintegrable chewable pouch with a plurality of perforations. The pouch encloses a non-tobacco flavor product that can be in a gel, semi-liquid, and/or liquid form. A user chews, sucks, and/or manipulates the pouch to cause the enclosed flavor product to leach out of the perforations into the user's mouth. | 06-13-2013 |
20130340774 | ORAL MOIST SMOKELESS TOBACCO PRODUCTS WITH NET-STRUCTURED GEL COATING AND METHODS OF MAKING - Oral tobacco products having a gel-coating and methods for making are provided. The method includes (a) molding a portion of tobacco material to form a pre-portioned piece of tobacco material, the tobacco material comprising moist smokeless tobacco; (b) contacting the pre-portioned piece of tobacco material with a gel-coating solution to form a gel-coating comprising at least one polymer on an outer surface of the pre-portioned piece of tobacco material to form a gel-coated oral tobacco product, said gel-coating comprising an inner surface disposed around the pre-portioned piece of tobacco material and an outer surface; and (c) forming one ore more of perforations, uncoated areas and holes in the gel-coating of the oral tobacco product to form a gel-coated oral tobacco product. | 12-26-2013 |
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20140223408 | INTEGRATION PROJECT CENTER - Embodiments of the present invention provide for supporting definition of services in the SOA using templates for definition of processes, tasks, and/or components and wizards associated to the templates for guiding users in defining values to variables in the templates. Embodiments of the present invention provide developers with a guided flow for an integration project as well as guidance from the functional decomposition from the solution architect within an integrated development environment. Embodiments provide pre-built templates that may also contain wizard based interfaces to help the developers to create services that follow best-practices and include necessary plumbing tasks. Embodiments described herein provide the ability to create and save BPEL projects and scopes as templates to be reused in later projects and the application of these template features with wizard interfaces and a project overview/checklist model to provide developer guidance and assistance in creating the service that follows best-practices. | 08-07-2014 |
20150046902 | EXECUTION SEMANTICS FOR SUB-PROCESSES IN BPEL - A system and method for facilitating execution of a portion of a process via a subprocess. An example method includes encapsulating process logic of a portion of a parent process via the subprocess, wherein the parent process is encoded via a business process language characterized by process lifecycle management functionality; using an instance of a call activity in a scope of the parent process or subprocess to activate the subprocess, yielding a called subprocess in response thereto; and employing a business process runtime engine to adjust a scope of the subprocess to inherit the scope of the process used to call the subprocess, thereby enabling the process lifecycle management functionality to govern a lifecycle of the subprocess. In a more specific embodiment, the business process language includes standard Business Prosecution Execution Language (BPEL); the parent process represents a business process; and the subprocess includes a standalone subprocess. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046905 | SUBPROCESS DEFINITION AND VISUALIZATION IN BPEL - A system and method for enabling reuse of a portion of a business process. An example method includes employing a business process language to facilitate accessing a definition of a subprocess characterizing the process logic, wherein the definition indicates one or more parameters to be used by the subprocess to implement a task specified by the process logic; and employing the definition to facilitate: using one or more variables of a parent process as one or more arguments that are passed to an instantiated version of the subprocess, and mapping the one or more arguments to the one or more parameters. In a more specific embodiment, the example method further includes characterizing a behavior of the subprocess via one or more dynamic scoping rules. The business process language includes a version of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), and a BPEL extension activity facilitates defining the subprocess. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046929 | USING-SUB-PROCESSES ACROSS BUSINESS PROCESSES IN DIFFERENT COMPOSITES - A system and method for facilitating reuse of a portion of process logic by different processes. An example method includes providing a subprocess that is adapted to perform the process logic in a file accessible to a composite system, wherein the subprocess is adapted to be called by a first parent process via a subprocess extension to a business process language employed to encode the first parent process; using a call activity defined as part of the subprocess extension, and included in a scope of the first parent process to facilitate access to functionality of the subprocess by the parent process; and employing a business process engine to facilitate instantiating the subprocess, resulting in an instantiated subprocess in response thereto; and using a second parent process to share use of the instantiated subprocess with the first parent process. | 02-12-2015 |