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20110018895 | Color Selection, Coordination and Purchase System - A paint color selection website arranged to provide a plurality of home pages each comprising a featured project image, each project image employing a plurality of different colors, each color located in a respective region of the image with at least one “hot spot” located in one or more of the regions, each hot spot comprising an attention-drawing animation feature responsive to a first selection operation to cause display of at least one color name, the color name being that of the color of the region where the hot spot lies. The home pages further may include real-life simulating animation features while the system software is operable to select the relative frequency with which each home page appears in response, for example, to a user's successive home page selections. An animated color sheen selection tool is also provided. | 01-27-2011 |
20110018896 | Automated Color Selection Method and Apparatus - An automated method and apparatus for providing color selection capability to a user wherein a first display is generated on a display apparatus of an array of color family groups disposed in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Upon selection of a particular color family group, a second display is generated comprising an enlarged display of a particular selected color family group wherein, as the second display is generated, the array of color family groups of the first display dissolves while the particular selected color family group moves into a central enlarged position and a miniature version of the entire array of color family groups is displayed in a thumbnail navigation frame, located in a corner of the display screen. Various elements of a color family such as color stripe cards, color style cards, and sample chips may be selected and caused to appear via animation in a central enlarged position in the display. | 01-27-2011 |
20130167061 | Automated Color Selection Method and Apparatus - An automated method and apparatus for providing color selection capability to a user wherein a first display is generated on a display apparatus of an array of color family groups disposed in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Upon selection of a particular color family group, a second display is generated comprising an enlarged display of a particular selected color family group and a reduced size miniature version of the array of color family groups. A third display may further be generated in response to selection of a color chip on the second display during which generation a color chip selected on the second display is caused to appear in an enlarged form in the third display. | 06-27-2013 |
20150153941 | Automated Color Selection Method and Apparatus - An automated method and apparatus for providing color selection capability to a user wherein a first display is generated on a display apparatus of an array of color family groups disposed in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Upon selection of a particular color family group, a second display is generated comprising an enlarged display of a particular selected color family group and a reduced size miniature version of the array of color family groups. A third display may further be generated in response to selection of a color chip on the second display during which generation a color chip selected on the second display is caused to appear in an enlarged form in the third display. | 06-04-2015 |
20150371309 | Automated Color Selection Method and Apparatus - An automated method and apparatus for providing color selection capability to a user, wherein a first display is generated on a display apparatus of a plurality of color families displayed in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Upon selection of a particular color family, a second display is generated comprising an enlarged display of the particular selected color family and a thumbnail navigation frame displaying the plurality of color families and a link enabling return to the first display, the enlarged display including a plurality of color chips of the particular color family. A third display may further be generated in response to a selection of a particular color chip on the second display, the third display having an enlarged display of the particular color chip, the thumbnail navigation frame displaying the plurality of color families, and the link enabling return to the first display. | 12-24-2015 |
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20120044069 | WELLBEING TRANSPONDER SYSTEM - The described system and method enable user health monitoring and alerting by providing an arm-mounted sensor wirelessly linked to a wrist-mounted transponder, although the wrist-mounted transponder may be omitted in favor of a user-carried cellular device. In either embodiment of the invention, a remote server is included to receive user health data and alerts, and to log received data and, when necessary, to alert health service providers. Health service providers may include physicians and emergency services providers. | 02-23-2012 |
20130337769 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING NETWORK IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION TO MANAGE MOBILE WIRELESS USER SERVICE POLICIE - A system and method are described that enable policy-implementing modules in a mobile wireless network to identify the location of a user and render policy-based (e.g., quality of service, accounting, throttling, etc.) decisions based upon a variety of additional information such as: home network availability in a market, user class, time of day, network congestion, application type, etc. The system renders policy decisions, based upon geo-spatial location information, by receiving a mobile wireless data message including a geospatial identifier. Thereafter, a policy engine renders a data service policy decision by applying a policy to the geospatial identifier. The potential classifications identified by the data service policy decision include an in-market roaming mode wherein a data usage is treated as non-roaming, even though associated with a roaming data session, based upon an in-market location specified by the geospatial location information. | 12-19-2013 |
20140018064 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING GEOGRAPHIC REDUNDANCY FOR MOBILE WIRELESS DATA NETWORK COMPONENTS - A system includes redundantly configured resources designated as active geo-redundant nodes (AGNs) and standby geo-redundant nodes (SGNs), a set of covered agents (CAs) that rely upon the redundantly configured resources, and a geographic redundancy coverage issuer (GRCI) configured to manage the geo-redundant nodes. The GRCI maintains a CA list identifying a set of subscribers to redundancy management services supported by the GRCI, an AGN list identifying a set of active geo-redundant nodes, and an SGN list identifying a set of standby geo-redundant nodes. The GRCI provides the AGN list and the SGN list to subscriber CAs. In response to receiving a message identifying a failed AGN, the GRCI updates the AGN list to reflect a failed status for the failed AGN and issues an update message to CAs reflecting the failed status for the failed AGN and a transition of an activated SGN to the AGN list. | 01-16-2014 |
20150312824 | System and Method for Providing Mobile Wireless Data Network Connectivity Via Vehicle-Installed Small Cell - A system is described for managing in-vehicle small cell gateway (IV-SCG) connections with a mobile wireless device. A home IV-SCG maintains a list identifying a set of neighboring SCG nodes, each one of the set of neighboring SCG nodes being a potential candidate for establishing a connection with the home IV-SCG forming a link along a data communications path between the home IV-SCG and the broadband network data resource. The home IV-SCG detects a triggering condition causing the home IV-SCG to seek out an alternative data communications path for the current data communications path. Thereafter, the home IV-SCG selects a partner neighboring SCG, from the neighboring SCG list, through which the alternative communications path passes, based upon a handover criterion based upon at least a capacity of individual ones of the set of neighboring SCG nodes to support current data communication requirements of a registered mobile wireless device. | 10-29-2015 |
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20130171959 | System And Method For Data Network Reassignment - Managing data resource utilization in a wireless network environment comprising a first data network and a second data network is described herein. The described management infrastructure and method incorporates monitoring data usage of a wireless network subscriber over the first data network, determining that the data usage over the first data network meets a specified threshold, and, in response to the determination that usage has reached the specified threshold, administratively disconnecting the wireless network subscriber from the first data network so as to cause a data session of the wireless network subscriber to be reassigned to the second data network. | 07-04-2013 |
20130171964 | System And Method For Network Assisted Control And Monetization Of Tethering To Mobile Wireless Devices - A way for managing use of a mobile wireless device in a tethering configuration is described. The disclosed mobile wireless system is configured to receive a message packet issued from a device tethered to the mobile wireless device. The system determines whether the mobile wireless device is permitted to pass messages on behalf of tethered devices by referencing a profile with which the mobile device is associated. The mobile wireless system discards the received message packet in response to determining from the profile that the mobile wireless device is not permitted to pass messages on behalf of tethered devices. Moreover, a number of ways for monetizing the supported tethering mode are described such that a service provider is adequately compensated for the increased demand on the mobile wireless network resources arising from support for the tethering mode of operation for a mobile wireless device. | 07-04-2013 |
20140111517 | DETECTING AND PROCESSING ANOMALOUS PARAMETER DATA POINTS BY A MOBILE WIRELESS DATA NETWORK FORECASTING SYSTEM - A computer-automated method is described for identifying and remediating anomalous data points for acquired performance parameter (e.g., KPI) values for components of a mobile wireless data network—such as PDSNs. The remediated data point sets is thereafter used as input to a forecasting model rendering a forecast for a mobile wireless network performance indicator/parameter. Data point sequence seasonality is exploited to improve the detection of anomalous data points. Furthermore, correcting data point sets is reiterated until changes between two iterations of the correction process are within a threshold magnitude for terminating the iterative data point sequence correction process. | 04-24-2014 |
20140328188 | Maintaining High Signal Quality In Mobile Wireless Networks Using Signal Relative Importance Values - A computer-automated method is described for identifying and carrying out reconfiguration actions for a transmitter in a radio network. A computer system is configured to determine, for a first transmitter, a multitude of relative importance values for signal data points relating to the first transmitter, the signal data points being acquired by mobile wireless devices from the first transmitter. Each relative importance value is determined by: (1) calculating a relative relevance for a first signal data point for the first transmitter, acquired by a first mobile wireless device, by comparing a first value for the first signal data point to a second value for a second transmitter, (2) calculating, by a fuzzy logic engine, a quality for the first signal data point, and (3) rendering a relative importance value based upon the relative relevance and the quality for the first signal data point. The results are thereafter used to carry out a reconfiguration action upon at least one transmitter based upon the multitude of relative importance values. | 11-06-2014 |
20150365954 | System and Method for Managing Frequency Layer Priority Assignments Within Mobile Wireless Network Radio Interfaces - A method and system are described for managing radio frequency layer priority settings for radio access network nodes in a mobile wireless network. A programmed server is configured with an initial configuration of the trigger definitions and corresponding radio frequency layer priority settings. Thereafter, the programmed server applies current conditions bearing upon a conditional area to a conditional area trigger definition. The programmed server then issues, based upon the application of the current conditions to the conditional area trigger definition, a message to re-designate radio frequency layer priority settings for a cell. The programmed server thereafter receives network characteristics feedback. | 12-17-2015 |
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20100094795 | GENE EXPRESSION BARCODE FOR NORMAL AND DISEASED TISSUE CLASSIFICATION - A computer-based method of creating a gene expression barcode includes the steps of determining an intensity of expression for each gene in a set of genes in a plurality of samples for at least one type; selecting genes in the set of genes that have at least two expression modes, based on the intensity; and creating a gene expression reference barcode, wherein each barcode bar corresponds to a selected gene and wherein the bar value is coded according to whether an intensity value for a selected gene is below or above a threshold value. The gene expression reference barcodes may then be compared with a similarly created barcode for a sample, for the purposes of identifying the sample, diagnosing a disease, and/or predicting a prognosis of a disease. | 04-15-2010 |
20130296182 | VARIABILITY SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS LINKING STOCHASTIC EPIGENETIC VARIATION AND COMMON DISEASE - Provided are methods and models for an alternative source of disease risk, which identifies not genetic variants for a phenotype per se, but variants for variability itself. Also provided are methods and models for a genome-scale, gene-specific analysis of DNA methylation in the same individuals over time, in order to identify a personalized epigenomic signature that may correlate with common genetic disease. Also provided are methods and models for simulating stochastic epigenetic variation as a driving force of development, evolutionary adaptation, and disease. | 11-07-2013 |
20140107933 | GENE EXPRESSION BARCODE FOR NORMAL AND DISEASED TISSUE CLASSIFICATION - A computer-based method of creating a gene expression barcode includes the steps of determining an intensity of expression for each gene in a set of genes in a plurality of samples for at least one type; selecting genes in the set of genes that have at least two expression modes, based on the intensity; and creating a gene expression reference barcode, wherein each barcode bar corresponds to a selected gene and wherein the bar value is coded according to whether an intensity value for a selected gene is below or above a threshold value. | 04-17-2014 |
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20090294741 | SILVER COMPOSITION FOR MICRO-DEPOSITION DIRECT WRITING SILVER CONDUCTOR LINES ON PHOTOVOLTAIC WAFERS - Embodiments of the invention relate to a silicon semiconductor device, and a conductive thick film composition for use in a solar cell device. | 12-03-2009 |
20100276647 | SILVER PARTICLES AND PROCESSES FOR MAKING THEM - There is disclosed a silver powder comprising silver particles, each said silver particle comprising silver components 100-500 nm long, 80-100 nm wide, and 80-100 nm thick, assembled on the surface of silver to form a spherically-shaped, open structured particle, wherein the surface of the particle resembles the surface of an orange rind and the d | 11-04-2010 |
20100279116 | SILVER PARTICLES AND PROCESSES FOR MAKING THEM - A silver powder comprising silver particles, each silver particle comprising silver components 100-2000 nm long, 20-100 nm wide and 20-100 nm thick assembled to form a spherically-shaped, open-structured particle, wherein the d | 11-04-2010 |
20100301479 | DEVICES CONTAINING SILVER COMPOSITIONS DEPOSITED BY MICRO-DEPOSITION DIRECT WRITING SILVER CONDUCTOR LINES - Embodiments of the invention relate to a silicon semiconductor device, and a conductive thick film composition for use in a solar cell device. | 12-02-2010 |
20100304558 | METHODS USING SILVER COMPOSITIONS FOR MICRO-DEPOSITION DIRECT WRITING SILVER CONDUCTOR LINES ON PHOTOVOLTAIC WAFERS - Embodiments of the invention relate to a silicon semiconductor device, and a conductive thick film composition for use in a solar cell device. | 12-02-2010 |
20110048527 | SILVER THICK FILM PASTE COMPOSITIONS AND THEIR USE IN CONDUCTORS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS - This invention provides a silver thick film paste composition comprising a silver powder comprising silver particles, each said silver particle comprising silver components 100-2000 nm long, 20-100 nm wide and 20-100 nm thick assembled to form a spherically-shaped, open-structured particle, wherein the d | 03-03-2011 |
20120118105 | REACTOR AND CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SILVER POWDERS - Disclosed herein is a continuous process for producing silver powders comprising silver particles. Each powder is comprised of silver particles that have a specific morphology that is determined by the process conditions and the use of one or more particle modifiers in the process. A reactor for carrying out the process is also disclosed. The silver powders produced are particularly useful in electronic applications. | 05-17-2012 |
20120205809 | DEVICES CONTAINING SILVER COMPOSITIONS DEPOSITED BY MICRO-DEPOSITION DIRECT WRITING SILVER CONDUCTOR LINES - Embodiments of the invention relate to a silicon semiconductor device, and a conductive thick film composition for use in a solar cell device. | 08-16-2012 |
20130058826 | PROCESS FOR MAKING SILVER POWDER PARTICLES WITH VERY SMALL SIZE CRYSTALLITES - The process for making silver powder particles with very small size crystallites uses a combination of gum arabic and maleic acid with the reduction of a silver salt with ascorbic acid. Silver thick film paste containing these silver powder particles can be used in electronic applications to form electrodes for semiconductor devices and, in particular, solar cells. | 03-07-2013 |
20130156632 | PROCESS FOR MAKING SILVER POWDER PARTICLES WITH SMALL SIZE CRYSTALLITES - The process for making silver powder particles with small size crystallites uses a combination of gum arabic and maleic acid with the reduction of a silver salt with ascorbic acid. Silver thick film paste containing these silver powder particles can be used in electronic applications to form electrodes for semiconductor devices and, in particular, solar cells. | 06-20-2013 |
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20150217958 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING UNIQUE OFFSETTING STACKER REGISTRATION USING OMNI-DIRECTIONAL WHEELS FOR SET COMPILING IN IMAGE FORMING DEVICES - A system and method are provided for improving stack integrity for a set of image receiving media substrates at an output of a compiler in an image forming device by positioning a particularly configured substrate handling device downstream of the output of the compiler in a process direction. The substrate handling device is configured of a plurality of omni-directional wheeled devices that provide drive (traction) normal to a motor axis under control of one of a respective plurality of independent motors while allowing sliding in the motor axis direction. The omni-directional wheeled devices, in one embodiment, are configured with small roller wheels along the periphery of the wheel. When using three or more omni-directional wheeled devices, translational movement can be combined with rotation to deliver sheets of image receiving media exiting the compiler at a correct angle and lateral position for further processing. | 08-06-2015 |
20150224788 | CHEMICALLY REACTIVE TEST STRIP FOR DETECTING MIS-FIRING PRINT HEADS WITH CLEAR FLUIDS - A jetting-fault analysis system can include a print head with a plurality of nozzles for ejecting a print medium, a testing substrate that can include a carrier and at least one color-changing material that changes color and forms a color pattern upon exposure to at least one color-change inducer, an applicator for deliver a color-change inducer to the testing substrate, and a color-pattern imaging system for analyzing the color pattern. | 08-13-2015 |
20150234581 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING AND MOVING A USER INTERFACE FOR SINGLE HANDED USE ON AN ENDPOINT DEVICE - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for adjusting and moving a user interface for single handed use on an endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method determines a thumb span of a hand of a user on a touch screen display of the endpoint device, detects via one or more sensors on the endpoint device that the user is holding the endpoint device with a single hand, adjusting a size of the user interface to be within dimensions of the thumb span in response to the detecting and moves the user interface in a direction towards the single hand in response to the detecting. | 08-20-2015 |