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20110266811 | SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR, ESPECIALLY FOR WIND TURBINES - A synchronous generator is provided. The generator includes a rotor, which rotates around a machine axis and is concentrically surrounded by a stator with a stator winding. A plurality of permanent magnets and pole pieces are alternatingly arranged at the rim of the rotor with the permanent magnets being oriented in an essentially tangential direction. Torque and power characteristic of the generator are improved by alternating pole pieces and pairs of permanent magnets. The permanent magnets each have a rectangular cross section in the axial direction, the pole pieces each have a symmetric trapezoidal cross section in the axial direction with the symmetry plane of the trapezoid extending radially through the machine axis and the longer parallel side lying outside. The two permanent magnets of each pair of permanent magnets are separated from each other by an intermediate wedge, which corresponds with its cross section to the trapezoidal pole pieces. | 11-03-2011 |
20110266896 | ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE - A rotating electric machine is provided and includes a rotor rotating around an axis and a stator concentrically surrounding the rotor. The stator is made up of a plurality of packages of laminations and includes a plurality of axial slots distributed along the inner circumference of the stator for receiving a stator winding. Cooling elements are provided within the stator to remove heat from the stator by a flow of cooling air flowing through said stator. The cooling efficiency and stator design are improved by providing radial and axial channels for the cooling air at the slots by combining packages of laminations with different shapes of the slot cut-outs. | 11-03-2011 |
20110266908 | ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE, ESPECIALLY SYNCHRONOUS PERMANENT MAGNET MACHINE - A rotating electric machine, especially synchronous permanent magnet machine, is provided. The machine includes a rotor with a given number of magnets distributed along the circumference and a given number of rotor pole pairs, and further comprising a stator with a given number of stator pole pairs and a given number of stator slots. The efficiency and the power of the machine are improved by making the number of stator pole pairs independent of the number of rotor pole pairs. | 11-03-2011 |
20110266912 | ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH A STATOR WINDING COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF COILS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A rotating electric machine is provided and includes a rotor rotating around an axis, and a stator concentrically surrounding the rotor, the stator being equipped with a stator winding, which includes a plurality of coils. Each of the coils is wound in a series of adjacent single coils around a respective series of adjacent teeth distributed along the inner circumference of a laminated stator core and extending in axial direction. All of the single coils of each coil are wound in an uninterrupted fashion with one continuous cable. | 11-03-2011 |
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20090187469 | METHOD FOR THE SIMULTANEOUS DIFFUSION OF SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES ON A NETWORK OF AFFILIATED WEB SITES - The method according to the invention consists of dynamically adapting survey questionnaires to the content of the affiliated Web sites of editors and the specific visitors of said sites. It comprises the dynamic selection of the most appropriate questionnaire for a given survey in function of the content of the site of the editor and/or the specific who visits the Web site of the editor and/or the response rate to the questionnaire. | 07-23-2009 |
20090187470 | METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT SURVEYS BY THE EXCHANGE OF TARGETED INFORMATION BETWEEN USERS AND WEB SITES OF A NETWORK - The method according to the invention involves a plurality of Web sites each belonging to an editor and on which survey questionnaires may be displayed that are accessible to users distributed by means of a survey network, on the initiative of a plurality of advertisers who wish to carry out market surveys. It comprises the issuing by the advertiser of a survey questionnaire, the answer by the user to this questionnaire, a step where the advertiser asks the user additional questions, the qualification of the user based on the answers made to the additional questions and the provision to the user of a targeted content. | 07-23-2009 |
20100138260 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THE OPERATION OF A SYSTEM FOR REALIZING AT LEAST ONE ONLINE POLL AND A SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method for optimizing the operation of a system for distributing at least one poll over the Internet, includes successive steps for: | 06-03-2010 |
20120136696 | Method for the Simultaneous Diffusion of Survey Questionnaires on a Network of Affiliated Websites - The method according to the invention consists of dynamically adapting survey questionnaires to the content of the affiliated Web sites of editors and the specific visitors of said sites. It comprises the dynamic selection of the most appropriate questionnaire for a given survey in function of the content of the site of the editor and/or the specific who visits the Web site of the editor and/or the response rate to the questionnaire. | 05-31-2012 |
20130066681 | Real-Time Survey Activity Monitor - Exemplary embodiments are directed to generating temporal indicators with respect to web-based survey responses. Exemplary embodiments identify quantity information and temporal information associated with responses to a web-based survey. The temporal indicator is generated based on the quantity information and the temporal information. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073502 | Survey Prioritization Engine - Exemplary embodiments are directed to prioritizing web-based survey based on a priority score associated with the survey. The priority score can be determined based on priority values that are determined for priority parameters associated with the survey. The priority values can be determined for priority parameters based on characteristic values of the web-based survey that are associated with the priority parameters. The priority score can establish a priority of the web-based survey relative to other web-based surveys. | 03-21-2013 |
20130132328 | Survey Feasibility Estimator - The disclosure is directed to systems and methods for estimating the completion time of a web-based survey. The estimated completion time can be determined based on survey parameters associated with the web-based survey. The survey parameters can be based on characteristic values of the web-based survey associated with the survey parameters. The characteristic values of survey parameters can be used to estimate parameter completion times, from which an estimated survey completion time for the web-based survey may be determined. The disclosed systems and methods further permit assessments of survey feasibility. | 05-23-2013 |
20130185122 | Virtual-to-Real Good/Service System Based on User Participation or Drawing - Exemplary embodiments are directed to determining an availability of an actual good and/or service based on activity of or with respect to a virtual icon on one or more webpages. The virtual icon can represent the actual good and/or service. The activity of or with respect to the virtual icon on the webpage(s) can be monitored and a determination of whether a conversion criteria has been satisfied can be made based on the monitored activity. The availability of the actual good or service can be based on satisfaction of the conversion criteria. In an alternative exemplary embodiment, a method of determining an availability of an actual good and/or service is provided based on a value of or with respect to a virtual icon on one or more webpages. The value of or with respect to the virtual icon on the webpage(s) can be compared to a value criteria to determine whether a value criteria has been satisfied. | 07-18-2013 |
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20120047014 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING EMAIL RECEIPTS FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING - Techniques for performing user classification based on email are provided. Emails stored in an email store may be analyzed to classify users. Information included in the stored emails may be extracted, and users may be classified into categories according to the extracted information. The extracted information may be analyzed in a manner so as to protect the personal information of the users according to any applicable privacy standards. Any number of types of emails may be analyzed to classify users in any number of ways. For instance, a plurality of commercial emails stored in the email store may be determined The commercial emails may be counted as conversions for an advertising campaign. The commercial emails may be parsed to extract commercial information. The commercial information may be parsed to generate user classification data. The user classification data may be used in various ways, including for targeting users with advertisements. | 02-23-2012 |
20120173533 | MINING GLOBAL EMAIL FOLDERS FOR IDENTIFYING AUTO-FOLDER TAGS - Embodiments are directed towards identifying auto-folder tags for messages by using a combinational optimization approach of bi-clustering folder names and features of messages based on relationship strengths. The combinational optimization approach of bi-clustering, generally, groups a plurality of folder names and a plurality of features into one or more metafolders to optimize a cost. The cost is based on an aggregate of cut relationship strengths, where a cut results when a relationship folder name and feature are grouped in separate metafolders. Furthermore, the plurality of folder names and the plurality of features are obtained by monitoring actions of a plurality of users, where the folder names are user generated folder names and features are from a plurality of messages. The metafolders may be used to tag new user messages with an auto-folder tag. | 07-05-2012 |
20130339137 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SPONSORED APPLICATIONS IN EMAIL - A method and system for providing targeted applications within an electronic message interface. The method comprises retrieving content from a user's electronic message in the electronic message interface, parsing and interpreting the user's context from the content, and accepting bidding on the user's interpreted context from one or more applications, the one or more applications including triggering conditions related to the user's interpreted context. The one or more applications are ranked based on the bidding. The method further comprises loading the one or more applications into the electronic message interface based on the ranking, and providing one or more follow-up transactions associated with the one or more loaded applications based on the user's interpreted context. | 12-19-2013 |
20150052203 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAILING LIST IDENTIFICATION AND REPRESENTATION - Disclosed is a system and method for managing mailing list newsletter messages for a recipient user, and organizing such messages in accordance with a receiving user's interests. The present disclosure enables novel organizational tools for emails by intuitively organizing received newsletters and providing highly visible features within a user's inbox respective the newsletters. Organization of received newsletters is ensured through ranking users' mailing lists according to his/her interest in them, based on actions made by the respective user, in addition to actions of other users receiving the same newsletters. Additionally, upon reception of such newsletters, the present disclosure provides a specialized view, in addition to added functionality within a user's inbox, thereby enhancing a user's experience and engagement with received messages of a newsletter. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058720 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SUGGESTING DIVERSE AND PERSONALIZED MESSAGE COMPLETIONS - Disclosed is a system and method for suggesting messages that are automatically learned, personalized and diversified by leveraging messages sent by a large number of users in order to provide message completions that are as engaging as possible. The disclosed systems and methods learn from recurrent messages sent to a recipient, and suggest message completions based upon user behavior. The systems and methods compute a ranked list of suggested message completions after every key stroke or character input, and if the list satisfies a given confidence threshold, it is returned and displayed to the user. | 02-26-2015 |