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20130073395 | ADVERTISEMENT FUNDED TELEPHONE CALLS - A method for rendering a document is disclosed. The method includes identifying a phone number in the document. The sponsorship configuration of the phone number is then determined. A caller account configuration is also determined. The caller account configuration is associated with a user of a device and the device is configured to display the document. The document is amended to format the phone number according to the sponsorship configuration and the caller account configuration. | 03-21-2013 |
20130239231 | Communication Between Web Applications - In an embodiment, communication is controlled between a service provider web application executed in a first web browser instance on a device platform of the device and a partner web application executed in a second web browser instance on the device platform. A signal is received, at a control module at the device, from the partner web application, the signal for initiating communication between the partner web application and the service provider web application. The control module, provided by the service provider and installed on the device, uses technology that is native to the device platform. The control module uses a list of partners approved by the service provider to determine whether the partner web application is approved for communication with the service provider web application. If the control module determines the partner web application is approved, the control module allows communication to proceed. | 09-12-2013 |
20140341371 | Web Platform with Select-to-Call Functionality - Web content is formatted to show an icon adjacent identified phone numbers to enable select-to-call, e.g., click-to-call functionality from within a web platform. The web platform can include various web browsers, web applications, and the like. The select-to call functionality can comprise an integral part of the web platform, such as comprising part of the web platform's binary. Alternately, the select-to call functionality can be provided through a web plug-in that is downloaded and incorporated into the web platform. The select-to-call functionality can enable the user's web platform context to be maintained during the call. | 11-20-2014 |
20140342707 | Reverse Number Look Up - Web content is formatted to show an icon adjacent identified phone numbers to enable select-to-call, e.g., click-to-call functionality from within a web platform. The select-to call functionality can enable the user's web platform context to be maintained during the call. In some instances, details associated with the phone number that is called using the select-to call functionality can be retrieved from a database and surfaced to the user, by way of the web platform, to enrich the user's call experience. | 11-20-2014 |
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20120284114 | OPTIMIZED DISPLAY OF AD LANDING PAGE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a computer program product for optimizing the display of landing pages in restrictive display environments are provided. A determined area or region of the landing page is identified. Upon receiving a request for content items to be presented on a device, a plurality of content items are identified for presentation on the device, each of the content items having an associated landing page destination address. If the requesting device is a restricted display device, a hash tag is appended to each of the associated destination addresses, each hash tag corresponding to a predefined section of an associated landing page. The plurality of identified content items are transmitted to the requesting device for presentation. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284608 | OPTIMIZED DISPLAY OF THE AD LANDING PAGE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a computer program product for optimizing the display of landing pages in restrictive display environments are provided. A determined area or region of the landing page is identified. Upon receiving a request for content items to be presented on a device, a plurality of content items are identified for presentation on the device, each of the content items having an associated landing page destination address. If the requesting device is a restricted display device, a hash tag is appended to each of the associated destination addresses, each hash tag corresponding to a predefined section of an associated landing page. The plurality of identified content items are transmitted to the requesting device for presentation. | 11-08-2012 |
20130018723 | SEARCH-AWARE CONDITIONAL BIDDING ON ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAYAANM KHANNA; AmitAACI SunnyvaleAAST CAAACO USAAGP KHANNA; Amit Sunnyvale CA US - Systems, methods, and computational solutions are discussed herein relating to the selection and assignment of show and no-show bids to advertisements based on overlap and/or association between search results and advertisements presented in conjunction therewith. Advertisers may provide ads with show and no-show bids to vary ad presentation cost based on search results. Systems and methods for enabling and enacting such bid and ad display techniques are disclosed herein. | 01-17-2013 |
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20160107287 | POLISHING PADS PRODUCED BY AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS - Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to advanced polishing pads with tunable chemical, material and structural properties, and new methods of manufacturing the same. According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, it has been discovered that a polishing pad with improved properties may be produced by an additive manufacturing process, such as a three-dimensional (3D) printing process. Embodiments of the present disclosure thus may provide an advanced polishing pad that has discrete features and geometries, formed from at least two different materials that include functional polymers, functional oligomers, reactive diluents, and curing agents. For example, the advanced polishing pad may be formed from a plurality of polymeric layers, by the automated sequential deposition of at least one resin precursor composition followed by at least one curing step, wherein each layer may represent at least one polymer composition, and/or regions of different compositions. | 04-21-2016 |
20160107295 | POLISHING PADS PRODUCED BY AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS - Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to advanced polishing pads with tunable chemical, material and structural properties, and new methods of manufacturing the same. According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, it has been discovered that a polishing pad with improved properties may be produced by an additive manufacturing process, such as a three-dimensional (3D) printing process. Embodiments of the present disclosure thus may provide an advanced polishing pad that has discrete features and geometries, formed from at least two different materials that include functional polymers, functional oligomers, reactive diluents, and curing agents. For example, the advanced polishing pad may be formed from a plurality of polymeric layers, by the automated sequential deposition of at least one resin precursor composition followed by at least one curing step, wherein each layer may represent at least one polymer composition, and/or regions of different compositions. | 04-21-2016 |
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20130138147 | Apparatus and Methods for Facilitating Hemostasis within a Vascular Puncture - Apparatus for sealing a puncture communicating with a blood vessel includes a bioabsorbable sealing member secured to one end of a filament or other retaining member. The sealing member is delivered through the puncture into the vessel, and refracted against the wall of the vessel to provide temporary hemostasis. The sealing member is rapidly absorbed after exposure within the vessel, e.g., to an aqueous or heated physiological environment (e.g., exposure to blood or body temperature), immediately or shortly after completing a medical procedure via the puncture, e.g., within the time period that the patient is ambulatory. Optionally, extravascular sealing material is delivered into the puncture proximal to the sealing member. The retaining member and/or extravascular material may be bioabsorbable, being absorbed at a slower rate than the sealing member. Alternatively, the filament is removed from the puncture after hemostasis is established. | 05-30-2013 |
20140296907 | Apparatus and Methods for Facilitating Hemostasis within a Vascular Puncture - Apparatus for sealing a puncture communicating with a blood vessel includes a bioabsorbable sealing member secured to one end of a filament or other retaining member. The sealing member is delivered through the puncture into the vessel, and refracted against the wall of the vessel to provide temporary hemostasis. The sealing member is rapidly absorbed after exposure within the vessel, e.g., to an aqueous or heated physiological environment (e.g., exposure to blood or body temperature), immediately or shortly after completing a medical procedure via the puncture, e.g., within the time period that the patient is ambulatory. Optionally, extravascular sealing material is delivered into the puncture proximal to the sealing member. The retaining member and/or extravascular material may be bioabsorbable, being absorbed at a slower rate than the sealing member. Alternatively, the filament is removed from the puncture after hemostasis is established. | 10-02-2014 |
20150051625 | Treating Occlusions within Body Vessels - A system for treating occlusions present within a body vessel. The device comprises a plaque-treating device having an elongate shaft and a distal plaque-treating portion adapted to remove hardened plaque from within a body vessel. The device further comprises a multi-balloon positioning catheter with a lumen into and through which lumen the plaque-treating device may be extended, the positioning catheter having at least three inflatable balloons positioned circumferentially about the lumen to controllably stabilize the lumen and its distal opening at a desired location within the body vessel, thus controlling the location of the plaque-treating device when extended from the distal end of the positioning catheter's lumen. | 02-19-2015 |
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20120131691 | LIGHT-REGULATED PROMOTERS - Light-regulated promoter sequences were identified that respond to differential light conditions and so can be used to regulate gene expression in a light- or dark-inducible manner. These promoters may be used to produce transgenic plants that have an altered trait relative to control plants. In preferred embodiments, the transgenic plants with the improved traits are morphologically and/or developmentally similar to control plants (examples of the latter include wild-type or non-transformed plants of the same species). Any of these light-regulated promoters may be incorporated into a nucleic acid construct that comprises a polynucleotide regulated by one such promoter and that encodes a polypeptide or RNA molecule that, when ectopically expressed, confers an improved trait in plants. | 05-24-2012 |
20120210456 | ENHANCEMENT OF PLANT YIELD, VIGOR AND STRESS TOLERANCE II - Altering the activity of specific regulatory proteins in plants, for example, with the use of heterologous repression domains fused to HY5 or STH2 clade proteins, can have beneficial effects on plant performance, including improved stress tolerance and yield. | 08-16-2012 |
20140380520 | MANIPULATING PLANT SENSITIVITY TO LIGHT - The present disclosure identifies new genes which have the potential to increase broad acre yield in crops. This disclosure is based upon our fundamental knowledge of light signal transduction and our understanding of the roles these genes play in regulating plant growth and development in response to light. Transgenic plants with gain- or loss-of-function of one of these genes, or in combination, are expected to show significant improvements in broad acre yield and stress tolerance. | 12-25-2014 |
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20120075664 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING MOBILE DEVICES FOR PRINTING TO WIRELESS PRINTERS - The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for configuring mobile communication devices to identify and communicate with wireless printing devices. These systems and methods may include determining available wireless printing devices, selecting a desired wireless printing device, attempting to establish communication between the mobile communication device and the wireless printing device using a first communication protocol, prompting a user to indicate the successfulness of the first communication protocol, and configuring the mobile communication device for printing to the wireless printing device using the first communication protocol if the first communication protocol successfully communicated with the wireless printing device. The systems and methods may further include prompting the user to indicate that the first communication protocol was not successful if the first communication protocol did not successfully communicate with the wireless printing device and repeating the method using another available communication protocol. | 03-29-2012 |
20150058870 | FACILITATING PURCHASE FROM VIDEO ADVERTISEMENTS - A purchase code, such as a web address indicating a webpage of a product at a merchant's website, may be embedded into a video advertisement by steganography. The video advertisement embedding the purchase code may be displayed to consumers on televisions or on display kiosks installed at a merchant's storefront. A consumer, who is viewing the video advertisement and is interested in purchasing the product being advertised, may point a mobile device with a camera, e.g., a smart phone, to scan the video advertisement with the camera. The mobile device may decode the video advertisement to capture the purchase code embedded in the video advertisement. The purchase code may automatically direct the mobile device to visit the product web page at the merchant's web site. Thus, the consumer may purchase the product immediately at the merchant's web site. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066671 | MERCHANT POINT OF SALE SECURITY SYSTEM - A point of sale (POS) security system includes a POS device including a non-transitory memory, one or more hardware processors, and one or more environment sensors. A plurality of POS instructions are located on the non-transitory memory in the POS device and executable by the one or more hardware processors in the POS device to provide a POS engine that is configured to receive and transmit payment information for conducting a payment transaction associated with a purchase. A plurality of security instructions are located on the non-transitory memory in the POS device and are executable by the one or more hardware processors in the POS device to provide a security engine that is configured to receive environment signals from the one or more environment sensors in the POS device and analyze those environment signals to determine a security breach. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066742 | PAYMENT APPLICATION WITH MERCHANT PHYSICAL LOCATION PERSONALIZATION - Systems and methods for providing a payment application personalized for a merchant physical location include receiving a first customer location from a first customer device that is running a payment application. A first merchant physical location is then determined to be associated with the first customer location and, in response, first merchant physical location personalization information is retrieved. The first merchant physical location personalization information is then provided for display as a user interface on at least one personalized merchant physical location screen that is provided on the first customer device using the payment application. The at least one personalized merchant physical location screen is configured to send an instruction to the payment application provider device to make a payment from a first customer account associated with the first customer to a first merchant account associated with the first merchant physical location. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066762 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing authentication include receiving an authentication passcode input through an input device of a user device from a first user. The first user is authenticated in response to the authentication passcode input matching at least one user authentication passcode in a database, and an authentication time period is associated with the authentication of the first user and allows the first user access to at least one application on the user device. A plurality of authentication factors are then detected using the user device, and plurality of authentication factors are not an authentication passcode input received through the input device. The plurality of authentication factors are then determined to match the at least one authentication profile in the database and, in response, the authentication time period is extended such that the first user is allowed continued access to the at least one application on the user device. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067824 | WEARABLE USER DEVICE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for authenticating a user include a wearable user device receiving a first request to access a secure system. A plurality of authentication elements are then displayed on a display device to a user eye in a first authentication orientation about a perimeter of an authentication element input area. A user hand located opposite the display device from the user eye is then detected selecting a sequence of the plurality of authentication elements. For each selected authentication element in the sequence, the wearable user device moves the selected authentication element based on a detected movement of the user hand and records the selected authentication element as a portion of an authentication input in response to the user hand moving the selected authentication element to the authentication element input area. The user is authenticated for the secure system if the authentication input matches stored user authentication information. | 03-05-2015 |
20160098552 | WEARABLE USER DEVICE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for authenticating a user include a wearable user device receiving a first request to access a secure system. A plurality of authentication elements are then displayed on a display device to a user eye in a first authentication orientation about a perimeter of an authentication element input area. A user hand located opposite the display device from the user eye is then detected selecting a sequence of the plurality of authentication elements. For each selected authentication element in the sequence, the wearable user device moves the selected authentication element based on a detected movement of the user hand and records the selected authentication element as a portion of an authentication input in response to the user hand moving the selected authentication element to the authentication element input area. The user is authenticated for the secure system if the authentication input matches stored user authentication information. | 04-07-2016 |
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20080273362 | LOW POWER CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY - A low power content addressable memory (CAM) device. The CAM device receives an N-bit comparand value and, in response, activates less than N compare lines within the CAM device to compare each of the N bits of the comparand value with contents of CAM cells coupled to the N compare lines. | 11-06-2008 |
20100054012 | CONTENT ADDRESABLE MEMORY HAVING PROGRAMMABLE INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE - A content addressable memory (CAM) device includes a CAM array, a programmable interconnect structure, and a priority encoder. The CAM array includes a plurality of CAM rows, each row including a number of CAM cells for storing a data word and coupled to a match line that indicates a match result for the CAM row. The programmable interconnect structure is coupled to each CAM row and a plurality of CAM rows, each row including a number of CAM cells for storing a data word and coupled to a match line that indicates match results for the row. The programmable interconnect structure coupled to each CAM row, and is configured to logically connect any number N of selected CAM rows together to form a data word chain spanning N rows, regardless of whether the selected CAM rows are contiguous. | 03-04-2010 |
20100054013 | CONTENT ADDRESABLE MEMORY HAVING SELECTIVELY INTERCONNECTED COUNTER CIRCUITS - A content addressable memory (CAM) device includes a plurality of CAM rows, a number of sequencing logic circuits, and a programmable interconnect structure. Each CAM row includes a number of CAM cells to generate a match signal on a match line and includes an enable input. Each sequencing logic circuit includes an input and an output, and is configured to count sequences of match signals from the CAM rows. The programmable interconnect structure selectively connects the match line of any CAM row to the input of any sequencing logic circuit, and selectively connects the output of any sequencing logic circuit to the enable input of any CAM row. | 03-04-2010 |
20100321970 | CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY HAVING PROGRAMMABLE INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE - A content addressable memory (CAM) device includes a CAM array, a programmable interconnect structure, and a priority encoder. The CAM array includes a plurality of CAM rows, each row including a number of CAM cells for storing a data word and coupled to a match line that indicates a match result for the CAM row. The programmable interconnect structure is coupled to each CAM row and a plurality of CAM rows, each row including a number of CAM cells for storing a data word and coupled to a match line that indicates match results for the row. The programmable interconnect structure coupled to each CAM row, and is configured to logically connect any number N of selected CAM rows together to form a data word chain spanning N rows, regardless of whether the selected CAM rows are contiguous. | 12-23-2010 |
20100321971 | CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY HAVING SELECTIVELY INTERCONNECTED COUNTER CIRCUITS - A content addressable memory (CAM) device includes a plurality of CAM rows, a number of sequencing logic circuits, and a programmable interconnect structure. Each CAM row includes a number of CAM cells to generate a match signal on a match line and includes an enable input. Each sequencing logic circuit includes an input and an output, and is configured to count sequences of match signals from the CAM rows. The programmable interconnect structure selectively connects the match line of any CAM row to the input of any sequencing logic circuit, and selectively connects the output of any sequencing logic circuit to the enable input of any CAM row. | 12-23-2010 |
20100328981 | CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY DEVICE FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY SEARCHING MULTIPLE FLOWS - A CAM device includes a CAM array coupled to a programmable priority encoding (PPE) logic circuit. The CAM array concurrently compares multiple input data with stored data to generate corresponding match results that are provided to the PPE logic circuit. The PPE logic circuit selectively favors the match results of a selected flow over the match results of the other flows in response to a flow select signal, which can be toggled to alternately select the match results of various flows. In this manner, the match results of the selected flow are generated and output even if the HPM index of the selected flow is of a lower priority than those of the non-selected flows, thereby ensuring an even distribution of match results reporting between different flows. | 12-30-2010 |
20110317462 | System for Dynamically Managing Power Consumption in a Search Engine - The power consumption of a search engine such as a CAM device is dynamically adjusted to prevent performance degradation and/or damage resulting from overheating. For some embodiments, the CAM device is continuously sampled to generate sampling signals indicating the number of active states and number of compare operations performed during each sampling period. The sampling signals are accumulated to generate an estimated device power profile, which is compared with reference values corresponding to predetermined power levels to generate a dynamic power control signal indicating predicted increases in the device's operating temperature resulting from its power consumption. The dynamic power control signal is then used to selectively reduce the input data rate of the CAM device, thereby reducing power consumption and allowing the device to cool. | 12-29-2011 |
20120113703 | SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A SEARCH ENGINE - The power consumption of a search engine such as a CAM device is dynamically adjusted to prevent performance degradation and/or damage resulting from overheating. For some embodiments, the CAM device is continuously sampled to generate sampling signals indicating the number of active states and number of compare operations performed during each sampling period. The sampling signals are accumulated to generate an estimated device power profile, which is compared with reference values corresponding to predetermined power levels to generate a dynamic power control signal indicating predicted increases in the device's operating temperature resulting from its power consumption. The dynamic power control signal is then used to selectively reduce the input data rate of the CAM device, thereby reducing power consumption and allowing the device to cool. | 05-10-2012 |
20130009479 | Multi-Phase Power System with Redundancy - An integrated circuit device for delivering power to a load includes a controller circuit, a cascade circuit, and a power delivery circuit. The controller circuit generates a plurality of control signals. The cascade circuit receives the control signals from the controller circuit and sequentially outputs the control signals onto a cascade bus. The power delivery circuit receives the control signals from the controller circuit and delivers an amount of current to the load, in response to one of the control signals. | 01-10-2013 |
20130009619 | Multi-Phase Power System with Redundancy - An integrated circuit device for delivering power to a load includes a controller circuit, a cascade circuit, and a power delivery circuit. The controller circuit generates a plurality of control signals. The cascade circuit receives the control signals from the controller circuit and sequentially outputs the control signals onto a cascade bus. The power delivery circuit receives the control signals from the controller circuit and delivers an amount of current to the load, in response to one of the control signals. | 01-10-2013 |
20130317998 | Intelligent Job Matching System and Method - A job searching and matching system and method is disclosed that gathers job seeker information in the form of job seeker parameters from one or more job seekers, gathers job information in the form of job parameters from prospective employers and/or recruiters, correlates the information with past job seeker behavior, parameters and behavior from other job seekers, and job parameters and, in response to a job seeker's query, provides matching job results based on common parameters between the job seeker and jobs along with suggested alternative jobs based on the co-relationships. In addition, the system correlates employer/recruiter behavior information with past employer/recruiter behavior, parameters and information concerning other job seekers, which are candidates to the employer, and resume parameters, and, in response to a Employer's query, provides matching job seeker results based on common parameters between the job seeker resumes and jobs along with suggested alternative job seeker candidates based on the identified co-relationships. | 11-28-2013 |
20150235181 | Intelligent Job Matching System and Method - A job searching and matching system and method is disclosed that gathers job seeker information in the form of job seeker parameters from one or more job seekers, gathers job information in the form of job parameters from prospective employers and/or recruiters, correlates the information with past job seeker behavior, parameters and behavior from other job seekers, and job parameters and, in response to a job seeker's query, provides matching job results based on common parameters between the job seeker and jobs along with suggested alternative jobs based on the co-relationships. In addition, the system correlates employer/recruiter behavior information with past employer/recruiter behavior, parameters and information concerning other job seekers, which are candidates to the employer, and resume parameters, and, in response to a Employer's query, provides matching job seeker results based on common parameters between the job seeker resumes and jobs along with suggested alternative job seeker candidates based on the identified co-relationships. | 08-20-2015 |