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| 20090286517 | System for the wireless transmission of information to a mobile appliance of a user of a means of transport - A system for wirelessly transmitting information to a mobile appliance of a user of a means of transport. The system can include a first database containing journey-related information and a second database containing a profile for the user. The system can further include a first device configured to identify the mobile appliance of the user when the mobile appliance enters a range of a wireless local area network in the means of transport, a second device configured to select information from the first database based on the profile stored in the second database, and a third device configured to transmit the selected information to the mobile appliance of the user. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100033308 | ARRANGEMENT FOR DOCUMENTING THE STATUS OF REMOVABLE PARTS ON BOARD AN AIRCRAFT - A system for documenting the status of removable parts on board an aircraft, in which at least some of the removable parts are provided with a passive storage to which and from which data can be read in a contactless manner, includes at least one reading device for contactlessly reading data from the passive storage means is provided on board the aircraft, at least one central memory on board the aircraft for storing or archiving the data which have been read from the passive storage by the at least one reading device which is connected to means for acquiring operating or flight data of the aircraft and a transmitting device on board the aircraft for transmitting the data from the central memory to a memory located outside the aircraft. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100049009 | APPARATUS AND ARRANGEMENT FOR CAPTURING OR EVALUATING MEDICAL DATA ON BOARD A MEANS OF TRANSPORT - An apparatus for capturing and/or evaluating medical data on board a means of transport, and a system including the apparatus. The apparatus includes at least one interface configured to capture or input medical data and a device configured to transmit medical data, audio data, or video data from the apparatus to or from a ground station situated outside the means of transport via data transmission means. The apparatus has a first and second mode of operation for transmitting data to or from the ground station. The first mode of operation is designed to use a first bandwidth sufficient for video transmission on the data transmission means. The second mode of operation is designed to use a second bandwidth narrower than the first bandwidth or a discontinuous data transmission mode on the data transmission means. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100060050 | WIRELESSLY CONTROLLABLE ELECTRICAL FUNCTIONAL UNIT FOR AN AIRCRAFT - An aircraft includes interchangeable, wirelessly controllable electrical or electronic functional units provided for use by passengers and associated with a seat or group of seats. The aircraft further includes installation sites for the functional units, each installation site being associated with one seat or a group of seats. The functional units are removable such that they can be installed and uninstalled in the installation sites or replaced during maintenance work without forfeiting the operational approval of the aircraft. Each functional unit includes an RFID reader operating in a contactless manner to identify the installation site of the functional unit and a device for the wireless transmission of the identified installation site to a database of the aircraft. An RFID tag is associated with each installation site and contains information readable by the RFID reader to identify the associated seat or group of seats. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100201166 | VEHICLE SEAT - The invention relates to a seat for a means of transport, having a supporting structure ( | 08-12-2010 |
| 20110142018 | System for Voice and/or Data Communication - The subject matter of the invention is a system for speech and/or data communication between a mobile telephone ( | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110166749 | LINE REPLACEABLE UNIT FOR AN AIRCRAFT - The subject matter of the invention is a line replaceable unit (LRU) ( | 07-07-2011 |
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| 20090096796 | Animating Speech Of An Avatar Representing A Participant In A Mobile Communication - Animating speech of an avatar representing a participant in a mobile communication including selecting one or more images; selecting a generic animation template; fitting the one or more images with the generic animation template; texture wrapping the one more images over the generic animation template; and displaying the one or more images texture wrapped over the generic animation template. Receiving an audio speech signal; identifying a series of phonemes; and for each phoneme: identifying a new mouth position for the mouth of the generic animation template; altering the mouth position to the new mouth position; texture wrapping a portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position; displaying the texture wrapped portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position of the mouth of the generic animation template; and playing the portion of the audio speech signal represented by the phoneme. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090128449 | Augmenting Reality For A User - Augmenting reality for a user including creating a model of a region of the user's environment in a direction of the user's field of vision; determining, in dependence upon the model of the region of the user's environment, that an object located within the user's environment is invisible to the user; determining, in dependence upon the direction of the user's field of vision, the object's location, and the model of the region of the user's environment, a location to display a representation of the object on a transparent display in front of the user's field of vision; and displaying the representation of the object at the determined location on the transparent display in front of the user's field of vision. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20100060647 | Animating Speech Of An Avatar Representing A Participant In A Mobile Communication - Animating speech of an avatar representing a participant in a mobile communication including selecting one or more images; selecting a generic animation template; fitting the one or more images with the generic animation template; texture wrapping the one more images over the generic animation template; and displaying the one or more images texture wrapped over the generic animation template. Receiving an audio speech signal; identifying a series of phonemes; and for each phoneme: identifying a new mouth position for the mouth of the generic animation template; altering the mouth position to the new mouth position; texture wrapping a portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position; displaying the texture wrapped portion of the one or more images corresponding to the altered mouth position of the mouth of the generic animation template; and playing the portion of the audio speech signal represented by the phoneme. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20110131247 | Semantic Management Of Enterprise Resourses - Semantic management of enterprise resources including identifying a plurality of disparate enterprise resources including physical resources of the enterprise and data resources of the enterprise, wherein the disparate enterprise resources are under the direction of a plurality of different management entities of the enterprise; creating for each enterprise resource a master metadata object representing the enterprise resource; wherein the structure of the each master metadata object is consistent for all the disparate enterprise resources and all management entities; wherein the master metadata object includes a plurality of predefined perspective fields, each perspective field containing a different predetermined aspects of the resources of the enterprise; assigning each master metadata object to one or more flexible reference structures; relating a plurality of master metadata objects with one or more other master metadata objects in dependence upon assigned flexible reference structures through predefined flexible reference structure fields in the master metadata objects; querying, in response to a specific user request, the related master data objects; and filtering the results of the query according to one or more enterprise views. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20120013620 | Animating Speech Of An Avatar Representing A Participant In A Mobile Communications With Background Media - Animating speech of an avatar representing a participant in a mobile communication including preparing the avatar for display for display including: selecting images to represent the participant, selecting a generic animation template having a mouth, fitting the images with the generic animation template, and texture wrapping the one or more images representing the participant over the generic animation template; selecting background media; displaying images texture wrapped over the generic animation template with the background media; and animating the images including: receiving an audio speech signal, identifying a series of phonemes, and for each phoneme: identifying a next mouth position, altering the mouth position, texture wrapping a portion of the images corresponding to the altered mouth position, displaying the texture wrapped portion and playing, synchronously with the displayed texture wrapped portion, the portion of the audio speech signal represented by the phoneme. | 01-19-2012 |
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| 20080235706 | Workflow Decision Management With Heuristics - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments typically include maintaining a device state history; identifying a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a derived scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern; and selecting a heuristic in dependence upon the derived scenario. In typical embodiments, the heuristic has a tolerance. Embodiments also include identifying a workflow in dependence upon the selected heuristic and executing the workflow in dependence upon the tolerance. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20110099207 | DISTRIBUTED DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL METHOD AND SYSTEM - A data storage and retrieval method and system. The method includes defining, by a computing system, a meta-object, a schema based structured definition for the meta-object, and a taxonomy with configuration data. The computing system creates content associated with the taxonomy and associates topics of the content with a logical storage room representations. Reference coordinates associated with the logical storage room representations are associated with the taxonomy. The computing system generates updated configuration data comprising the reference coordinates and a uniform resource identifier associated with the content is generated. The computing system generates an account associated with the meta-object for a user. Metering charges for usage of the account and a report associated with the account and usage are generated. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110131339 | DATA ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - A data access control method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor from a requestor, a request for access to data. The computer processor extracts from the request, a requestor identification string associated with the requestor. The computer processor verifies a match for the requestor identification string, a service requestor identification string, a requestor software component operating process identification string, a requestor server identification string, a requestor hardware device network address and a requestor MAC address, and a requestor hardware device identification string against a plurality of registries. The computer processor generates an access point door associated with a specified logical storage room representation comprising the data. The computer processor enables access to the data via the access point door and the specified logical storage room representation. | 06-02-2011 |
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| 20100251941 | Fire resistant pallet - An industrial platform for material handling, such as a plastic pallet, is constructed of three scuffed thermoplastic sheets, including exterior intumescent polymeric surfaces for resisting the spread of combustion flames and insulating the interior surfaces from the high temperature of fire. The pallet is reinforced with optional rigidifying structures without article modification. Pallet members are joined with snap together features providing an assembled article. The pallet includes handles for ergonomic manipulation by workers and is readily adapted to receive a number of unitization accessories for enhancing material handling operations. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110068924 | Pallet with pallet RFID reader/writer for conducting on-demand pallet inventory - A material handling apparatus has a communications device associated therewith. The device includes a reader/writer for communicating with RF tags located on products supported upon the apparatus and with RF tags located within distribution networks. A further aspect of the present invention provides a RF tag attached to the apparatus and the device. In still another aspect of the present invention, a wireless local area network communications device is incorporated with the read/writer. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110227725 | Pallet with wireless transceiver for communicating pallet manifest, condition and location information - The inventions involve material handling apparatus including pallets developed to operate in radio frequency rich environments. Apparatus are provided having at least one large compartment capable of enclosing at least one electronic device or a package populated with a plurality of devices. Articles with attached RFID item tags are loaded onto the apparatus. The apparatus includes an RFID reader/writer interrogator for communicating with the RFID item tags to maintain a pallet manifest. The apparatus includes RFID pallet tags that communicate with the device, the RFID item tags and RFID beacon tags positioned within distributed RFID networks. The RFID pallet tags include sensors to monitor pallet conditions to which a pallet management system is responsive. The apparatus includes wireless transceivers for communicating indicative information through LAN, WLAN and Cellular communications networks. The apparatus includes a power resource in order to facilitate long term autonomous operation. | 09-22-2011 |
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| 20090237222 | Electronic data distribution system - An apparatus has a communications device associated therewith. In another aspect of the present invention, a pallet is made from thermoformed polymeric sheets with an attached communications device. A further aspect of the present invention provides a radio frequency identification device attached to an apparatus. In still another aspect of the present invention, a communications device is incorporated into one or more sheets of a pallet or other container prior to forming. Methods of making and using a thermoformed pallet and container, having a communications device, are also provided. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20110017106 | Plastic pallet structure - An industrial platform for material handling, such as a plastic pallet, is constructed of three scuffed thermoplastic sheets, including exterior intumescent polymeric surfaces for resisting the spread of combustion flames and insulating the interior surfaces from the high temperature of fire. The pallet is reinforced with optional rigidifying structures without article modification. Pallet members are joined with snap together features providing an assembled article. The pallet includes handles for ergonomic manipulation by worker, and is readily adapted to receive a number of unitization accessories for enhancing material handling operations. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110073250 | Method and apparatus for thermoplastic sheet with RFID - A pallet is made from thermoformed polymeric sheets with an attached communications device. A further aspect of the present invention includes a radio frequency identification device attached to an apparatus. In still another aspect of the present invention, a communications device is incorporated into one or more sheets of a pallet or other container prior to forming. Methods of making and using a thermoformed pallet and container having a communications device are also provided. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110187022 | Flame retardant-containing plastic shipping container - A halogen free fire resistant RF transparent polymer pallet has attenuated electrical resistance. A pallet body has a fire resistant layer and a substrate supporting the fire resistant layer. The fire resistant layer includes fire retardant materials, such as Al(OH) | 08-04-2011 |
