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20090215990 | Method and system for production of zein and/or xanthophylls using chromatography - Methods and systems for obtaining zein and/or xanthophylls in highly pure form. Zein is first extracted from corn using aqueous ethanol. Suspended corn solids are separated, and the resulting extract is purified in a single size-exclusion chromatography step to separate impurities and produce substantially purified zein. The chromatography step may simultaneously produce substantially purified xanthophylls. | 08-27-2009 |
20100010197 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CORN FRACTIONATION - Methods and apparatus for processing corn into one or more corn products. Oil is extracted from corn or corn products or by-products with a solvent. The corn-solvent mixture is separated into streams, one of which preferably includes an extract containing at least oil and solvent, and another containing de-oiled corn solids and adsorbed solvent. Zein is separated from the de-oiled corn solids. Solvent is then separated, and the de-oiled, de-zeined, desolventized corn solids are processed to provide one or more corn products. | 01-14-2010 |
20100016554 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CORN FRACTIONATION - Methods and apparatus for processing corn into one or more corn products. Zein is extracted from corn or corn products or by-products with a solvent. The corn-solvent mixture is separated into streams, one of which preferably includes an extract containing at least zein and solvent, and another that contains de-zeined corn solids and adsorbed solvent. The solvent is separated from the zein, and the de-zeined, desolventized corn solids are processed to provide one or more corn products. | 01-21-2010 |
20120141644 | Germ Oil Extraction With Ethanol - A corn oil production method is described that produces oil from corn germ. An alcohol solvent is used to extract oil from corn germ. The extraction mixture is separated into the deoiled germ solids and an extract containing the alcohol solvent and oil. The extract is membrane filtered by nanofiltration or reverse osmosis. The oil is retained in the retentate and the alcohol solvent passes into the permeate. The oil contained within the retentate is concentrated and purified. The alcohol used in the extraction step may be produced in-house. The de-germed corn and the de-oiled germ solids may be used to produce the alcohol. | 06-07-2012 |
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20090116626 | Dynamic order fulfillment for communications, information and entertainment services - A system and method to enable dynamic partner selection and subsequent order fulfillment by a service provider is presented. The system and method has an order entry device for obtaining an order, a service specification corresponding to the order, a flow execution engine, a partner selector mechanism, at least one partner, and at least one component obtained from the service specification, the component being broadcast from the partner selector mechanism to the partner, who responds to the broadcast, such that all of the partner responses are optimized by the partner selector mechanism for execution by said flow execution engine to fulfill the order. | 05-07-2009 |
20090119656 | Method and system for policy enabled programming - A system and method for allowing external execution-time adaptation of application behavior of an application in a telecommunication system without modification to the application code comprises an application having at least one break point and residing on an application server, at least one identifiable decision engine, and a listing of break points that has for each break point at least one identifier of the decision engine, such that at one of the break points, the application accesses the listing of break points, invokes the listed instances of the decision engine corresponding to the break point, and adapts application behavior based on the decision engine. In addition, each entry in the listing of break points can have a sequence number so that if two entries for the same break point have equal sequence numbers, the decision engines identified in these entries can be invoked in parallel. | 05-07-2009 |
20110119661 | Automated Determination of Quasi-Identifiers Using Program Analysis - A system and method for automated determination of quasi-identifiers for sensitive data fields in a dataset are provided. In one aspect, the system and method identifies quasi-identifier fields in the dataset based upon a static analysis of program statements in a computer program having access to—sensitive data fields in the dataset. In another aspect, the system and method identifies quasi-identifier fields based upon a dynamic analysis of program statements in a computer program having access to—sensitive data fields in the dataset. Once such quasi-identifiers have been identified, the data stored in such fields may be anonymized using techniques such as k-anonymity. As a result, the data in the anonymized quasi-identifiers fields cannot be used to infer a value stored in a sensitive data field in the dataset. | 05-19-2011 |
20110153564 | ERROR-SENSITIVE ELECTRONIC DIRECTORY SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM AND METHODS - A system and method is provided for synchronizing related entries in different electronically stored directories. In one implementation, the method includes the steps of: storing first entries in a first directory, one of a plurality of directories, the first entries having first fields for different types of information and each first field having a related stored confidence level indicating the degree of confidence of the accuracy of the data stored in each first field; storing second entries in related second fields in a second memory, each of the second field entries having a corresponding stored confidence level; determining when a change has been made to a field of an entry; and updating the corresponding field in the other directory with a confidence level for the field when a change exceeds a threshold. | 06-23-2011 |
20110154386 | ANNOTATED ADVERTISEMENT REFERRAL SYSTEM AND METHODS - A system and methods provide an annotated advertisement referral for presentation on an electronic device by employing the steps of receiving at an electronic processor an indication of a referral of an advertisement and the identity of a target to whom the advertisement is referred, and then directing the electronic signal representing a version of that advertisement to an electronic device associated with that target to whom the advertisement is referred. Preferably, that directed electronic signal includes an indication of the origin of the referral and a ranking of the advertisement given by the referring party. | 06-23-2011 |
20110228913 | AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION FROM ONGOING VOICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHODS - A system and methods are provided for automatically extracting information from ongoing voice communications. A signal is received at an electronic processor indicating that a portion of an ongoing communication is to be recorded. As a result of that signal, the ongoing communication is recorded and then analyzed to identify information suitable for storage in an address directory of a participant to the communication maintained in an electronic storage medium. Thereafter, the extracted information is sent to that address directory for storage there. In the alternative, when the extracted information is a telephone number, a call based upon that number may be placed automatically and connected into the ongoing communication. | 09-22-2011 |
20120072932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AND MANAGING THE DELIVERY OF DIGITAL MEDIA TO DEVICES ON HOME NETWORKS - A system and method for controlling and managing delivery of digital media to devices on a home network is presented. The system comprises an application server executed by a physical or virtual CPU, the application server notified by each device when each device initializes, a plurality of plug-ins, each device corresponding to at least one plug-in, and a control plane, wherein the control plane receives notice of an event from one device and sends the notice of the event to the application server, which sends the notice of the event to the plug-in corresponding to the one device having the event, and the plug-in performs the event. The plug-in can perform the event by streaming content data to a desired device. The application server can maintain user information and when the plug-in performs the event, the plug-in updates the user information. The application server can have an interactive program guide. | 03-22-2012 |
20120084464 | Obfuscating Network Traffic from Previously Collected Network Traffic - An obfuscated network traffic server is operative to generate obfuscated network traffic. The obfuscated network traffic server maintains the relationship between extracted application content and extracted network header content such that the obfuscated network traffic is indistinguishable from the monitored network traffic. The obfuscated network traffic server may include a network monitor operative to monitor network traffic and to extract application content and network header content from the monitored network traffic. The obfuscated network traffic server may also include a data masking processor operative to mask a portion of the separated application content and/or the separated network header content. The obfuscated network traffic server may further include a masking attribute selector operative to specify the attributes of the application content and/or the network header content that is to be masked. | 04-05-2012 |
20120130799 | SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINATION OF ADVERTISEMENT EFFECTIVENESS - A system and method for determination of advertisement effectiveness is presented. The method can comprise obtaining records for domain elements, for each domain element, developing a model and populating the model based on the obtained records, for a record of a first domain element of the plurality of domain elements, searching a second domain element for another record matching the record of the one domain element, when a match is found, correlating a time stamp in the record with a time stamp in the other record and when correlated, determining a confidence level indicating the advertisement effectiveness. In one aspect, determining a confidence level further comprises searching a third domain element, obtaining a search result, and incorporating the search result in the confidence level. In one aspect, searching a third domain element further comprises performing a secondary search. | 05-24-2012 |
20130226698 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR EMBEDDING IN LINE ADVERTISEMENTS DURING A MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION SESSION - Systems, methods and programs for determining a question posed to a user during a user authentication process are provided. An example of a method for determining the question comprises obtaining user commercial activity, storing the user commercial activity by activity type, generating a set of candidate questions for a user based upon the user commercial activity, each candidate question in the set of candidate questions is associated with a score, selecting one candidate question from the set of the candidate questions based upon a first selection criteria, detecting a vendor placement opportunity in the selected candidate question by analyzing the user commercial activity and adding a vendor name into the selected candidate question based upon the detecting. The user commercial activity can be user purchases of goods and services from corresponding vendors. Lost Opportunities for the placement of an advertisement are detected and recorded. | 08-29-2013 |
20140130178 | Automated Determination of Quasi-Identifiers Using Program Analysis - A system and method for automated determination of quasi-identifiers for sensitive data fields in a dataset are provided. In one aspect, the system and method identifies quasi-identifier fields in the dataset based upon a static analysis of program statements in a computer program having access to - sensitive data fields in the dataset. In another aspect, the system and method identifies quasi-identifier fields based upon a dynamic analysis of program statements in a computer program having access to -sensitive data fields in the dataset. Once such quasi-identifiers have been identified, the data stored in such fields may be anonymized using techniques such as k-anonymity. As a result, the data in the anonymized quasi-identifiers fields cannot be used to infer a value stored in a sensitive data field in the dataset. | 05-08-2014 |
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20110266420 | REDUCTION OF DELAY BETWEEN SUBSEQUENT CAPTURE OPERATIONS OF A LIGHT-DETECTION DEVICE - Disclosed are a system, a method and an apparatus of reduction of delay between subsequent capture operations of a light-detection device. In one embodiment, a light-detection circuit includes an avalanche photodiode implemented in a deep submicron CMOS technology. In addition, the light-detection circuit includes a passive quench control circuit to create an avalanche current that generates a high voltage at an output of a second inverter gate of the circuit. The light-detection circuit further includes an active quench control circuit to reduce a dead time of the circuit. The light-detection circuit also includes a reset circuit to create a low voltage at an output of the second inverter gate and to create an active reset through a PMOS transistor of the light-detection circuit. | 11-03-2011 |
20110304758 | HIGH SPEED IMAGING THROUGH IN-PIXEL STORAGE - Disclosed are a system, a method and an apparatus of high speed imaging through in-pixel storage. In one embodiment, an image sensor includes an event sensor to detect events in a process. In addition, the image sensor includes an in-pixel storage to increase an event capture rate of the events through a separation of an event capture operation from other operations of the image sensor. | 12-15-2011 |
20120056078 | COORDINATED IN-PIXEL LIGHT DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus of coordinated in-pixel light detection is provided. In one aspect, the method includes implementing an N-number of avalanche photodiodes inside a pixel circuit of a light detection circuit. The method also includes coordinating an output of the N-number of avalanche photodiodes through a counter circuit. The method further includes reducing a deadtime of the light detection circuit by a factor of ‘N’ through the N-number of avalanche photodiodes and the counter circuit operating in concert. The method furthermore includes measuring an intensity of a light through the light detection circuit. N-number of avalanche photodiodes is in a common well of a semiconductor technology. N-number of avalanche photodiodes is fabricated on a deep submicron semiconductor technology. A fill factor of the pixel circuit improves and a deadtime reduces through fabrication of the avalanche photodiodes in a common well. Also, a photon count rate increases through reducing the deadtime. | 03-08-2012 |
20120057059 | SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD - A single photon counting image sensor and method is provided. In one aspect, the method of an image sensor includes counting through a counter circuit a number of photons detected through a photodiode when a light is incident on the photodiode. The method also includes storing in a memory circuit a time a count of the number of photons take to match a reference count of the number of photons. In another aspect, an image sensor device includes a pixel circuit. The image sensor device also includes a photodiode circuit of the pixel circuit to detect photons when a light is incident on the photodiode circuit. The image sensor device further includes a counter circuit of the pixel circuit coupled to the photodiode circuit to count a number of photons detected when a light is incident on the avalanche photo diode. | 03-08-2012 |
20120057152 | HIGH-SPEED ANALOG PHOTON COUNTER AND METHOD - A high speed analog photon counter and method is provided. In one aspect, the method includes delivering an electric charge to a circuit of the high speed analog photon counter through a current source of the circuit. The method also includes accumulating the electric charge in a capacitor of the circuit electrically coupled to the current source. The method further includes comparing the electric charge accumulated in the capacitor of the circuit with a reference voltage through a comparator of the circuit electrically coupled to an output of the capacitor. The output of the capacitor of the circuit is coupled to an input of the comparator of the circuit, and the reference voltage is coupled to another input of the comparator of the circuit. The method furthermore includes resetting the capacitor of the circuit when the electric charge accumulated in the capacitor of the circuit matches the reference voltage. | 03-08-2012 |
20120274409 | INJECTION LOCKING BASED POWER AMPLIFIER - A method, an apparatus and/or a system of injection locking based power amplifier is disclosed. A method includes inputting a reference signal through an injection circuit of an oscillator circuit that generates an output signal of high power that oscillates at an inherent frequency of oscillation of the oscillator circuit. The method also includes reducing a frequency of the reference signal through a differential transistor pair coupled to the injection circuit of the oscillator circuit. The method further includes locking through a tuning circuit of the oscillator circuit coupled to the differential transistor pair a frequency of the output signal to the reduced frequency of the reference signal based on the power of the reference signal to amplify the power of the reference signal through the oscillator circuit. The frequency of the reference signal is higher than the frequency of the output signal. | 11-01-2012 |
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20120321020 | COMPLENTARY DIFFERENTIAL INPUT BASED MIXER CIRCUIT - A method, an apparatus and/or a system of complementary differential input based mixer circuit is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes inputting a single ended signal to a mixer circuit comprising a differential input circuit through a complementary differential transistor pair of the differential input circuit of the mixer circuit. The method also includes converting the signal ended signal to a differential signal through the complementary differential transistor pair of the differential input circuit to drive the mixer circuit. | 12-20-2012 |
20130068928 | HIGH-SPEED ANALOG PHOTON COUNTER AND METHOD - A high speed analog photon counter and method is provided. In one aspect, the method includes delivering an electric charge to a circuit of the high speed analog photon counter through a current source of the circuit. The method also includes accumulating the electric charge in a capacitor of the circuit electrically coupled to the current source. The method further includes comparing the electric charge accumulated in the capacitor of the circuit with a reference voltage through a comparator of the circuit electrically coupled to an output of the capacitor. The output of the capacitor of the circuit is coupled to an input of the comparator of the circuit, and the reference voltage is coupled to another input of the comparator of the circuit. The method furthermore includes resetting the capacitor of the circuit when the electric charge accumulated in the capacitor of the circuit matches the reference voltage. | 03-21-2013 |
20130168535 | TIME-DELAY INTEGRATION THROUGH REDUCTION OF DELAY BETWEEN SUBSEQUENT CAPTURE OPERATIONS OF A LIGHT-DETECTION DEVICE - Disclosed are a system, a method and an apparatus of reduction of delay between subsequent capture operations of a light-detection device. In one embodiment, a light-detection circuit includes an avalanche photodiode implemented in a deep submicron CMOS technology. In addition, the light-detection circuit includes a passive quench control circuit to create an avalanche current that generates a high voltage at an output of a second inverter gate of the circuit. The light-detection circuit further includes an active quench control circuit to reduce a dead time of the circuit. The light-detection circuit also includes a reset circuit to create a low voltage at an output of the second inverter gate and to create an active reset through a PMOS transistor of the light-detection circuit. | 07-04-2013 |
20130248689 | TIME-DELAY INTEGRATION IMAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING A HIGH-SPEED IN-PIXEL ANALOG PHOTON COUNTER - A high speed analog photon counter and method is provided. In one aspect, the method includes accumulating an electric charge in a capacitor of a circuit electrically coupled to a current source. The method further includes comparing the electric charge accumulated in the capacitor of the circuit with a reference voltage through a comparator of the circuit electrically coupled to an output of the capacitor. The method also includes increasing a speed of operation of a measurement device through implementing the circuit inside a pixel. The method further includes transferring the accumulated electric charge to a circuit of an adjacent pixel and synchronizing the transfer of the accumulated electric with a movement of an object captured by an image sensor device before implementing a time-delay integration operation. | 09-26-2013 |