un Low latency variable transfer network communicating variable written to source processing core variable register allocated to destination thread to destination processing core variable register allocated to source thread By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 08:00:00 EDT A method and circuit arrangement utilize a low latency variable transfer network between the register files of multiple processing cores in a multi-core processor chip to support fine grained parallelism of virtual threads across multiple hardware threads. The communication of a variable over the variable transfer network may be initiated by a move from a local register in a register file of a source processing core to a variable register that is allocated to a destination hardware thread in a destination processing core, so that the destination hardware thread can then move the variable from the variable register to a local register in the destination processing core. Full Article
un Method and system for managing hardware resources to implement system functions using an adaptive computing architecture By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 19 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT An adaptable integrated circuit is disclosed having a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The interconnection network changes interconnections between the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements in response to configuration information. A first group of computational elements is allocated to form a first version of a functional unit to perform a first function by changing interconnections in the interconnection network between the first group of heterogeneous computational elements. A second group of computational elements is allocated to form a second version of a functional unit to perform the first function by changing interconnections in the interconnection network between the second group of heterogeneous computational elements. One or more of the first or second group of heterogeneous computational elements are reallocated to perform a second function by changing the interconnections between the one or more of the first or second group of heterogeneous computational elements. Full Article
un Shared load-store unit to monitor network activity and external memory transaction status for thread switching By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 19 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT An array of a plurality of processing elements (PEs) are in a data packet-switched network interconnecting the PEs and memory to enable any of the PEs to access the memory. The network connects the PEs and their local memories to a common controller. The common controller may include a shared load/store (SLS) unit and an array control unit. A shared read may be addressed to an external device via the common controller. The SLS unit can continue activity as if a normal shared read operation has taken place, except that the transactions that have been sent externally may take more cycles to complete than the local shared reads. Hence, a number of transaction-enabled flags may not have been deactivated even though there is no more bus activity. The SLS unit can use this state to indicate to the array control unit that a thread switch may now take place. Full Article
un System, method and computer program product for recursively executing a process control operation to use an ordered list of tags to initiate corresponding functional operations By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 19 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for controlling a process using a process map. These mechanisms and methods for controlling a process using a process map can enable process operations to execute in order without necessarily having knowledge of one another. The ability to provide the process map can avoid a requirement that the operations themselves be programmed to follow a particular sequence, as can further improve the ease by which the sequence of operations may be changed. Full Article
un System and method for communicating with sensors/loggers in integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) tags By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT A system and method is disclosed for communicating with sensors/loggers in integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. An RFID reader uses a Communicate With Data Logger Command to communicate with a data logger in an RFID tag. The RFID reader performs data access processes using an Index Register and a Data Register of the RFID tag. The RFID reader selects one of (1) Index Read access (2) Index Write access (3) Data Write access (4) Data Read access with parity and (5) Data Read access with cyclic redundancy check (CRC). The RFID tag performs the requested data access and then performs an error detection process. Full Article
un Storing in other queue when reservation station instruction queue reserved for immediate source operand instruction execution unit is full By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT A processing apparatus includes an execution unit which performs computation on two operand inputs each being selectable between read data from a register and an immediate value. The processing apparatus also includes another execution unit which performs computation on two operand inputs, one of which is selectable between read data from a register and an immediate value, and the other of which is an immediate value. A control unit determines, based on a received instruction specifying a computation on two operands, whether each of the two operands specifies read data from a register or an immediate value. Depending on the determination result, the control unit causes one of the execution units to execute the computation specified by the received instruction. Full Article
un Unified and extensible asynchronous and synchronous cancelation By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT A cancelation registry provides a cancelation interface whose implementation registers cancelable items such as synchronous operations, asynchronous operations, type instances, and transactions. Items may be implicitly or explicitly registered with the cancelation registry. A consistent cancelation interface unifies cancelation management for heterogeneous items, and allows cancelation of a group of items with a single invocation of a cancel-registered-items procedure. Full Article
un Compound versioning and identification scheme for composite application development By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT The present invention provides a method, a system and a computer program product for defining a version identifier of a service component. The method includes determining various specification levels corresponding to the service component. Thereafter, the determined specification levels are integrated according to a predefined hierarchy to obtain the version identifier of the service component. The present invention also enables the identification of the service components. The service components are identified from one or more service components on the basis of one or more user requirements. Full Article
un System and method for generating software unit tests simultaneously with API documentation By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT A system and method may generate unit tests for source code concurrently with API documentation. The system may receive a source code file including several comments sections. Each comments section may include a description of a source code unit such as a class, method, member variable, etc. The description may also correspond to input and output parameters the source code unit. The system and method may parsing the source code file to determine a source code function type corresponding to the unit description and copy the unit description to a unit test stub corresponding to the function type. A developer or another module may then complete the unit test stub to transform each stub into a complete unit test corresponding to the source code unit. Additionally, the system and method may execute the unit test and generate a test result indication for each unit test. Full Article
un Simultaneously targeting multiple homogeneous and heterogeneous runtime environments By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT A single software project in an integrated development environment (IDE) may be built for multiple target environments in a single build episode. Multiple different output artifacts may be generated by the build process for each of the target environments. The output artifacts are then deployed to the target environments, which may be homogeneous or heterogeneous environments. The same source project may be used to generate multiple output artifacts for the same target environment. Full Article
un System and method for efficient compilation and invocation of function type calls By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT A system and method for efficient compilation and invocation of function type calls in a virtual machine (VM), or other runtime environment, and particularly for use in a system that includes a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a virtual machine for executing a software application; a memory space for the application byte code comprising callsites generated using a function type carrier; a bytecode to machine code compiler which performs MethodHandle invocation optimizations; a memory space for the compiled machine code; and a memory space for storing software objects as part of the software application. The system enables carrying the function type from the original MethodHandle to a callsite in the generated bytecode, including maintaining generics information for a function type acquired from a target function, and generating a callsite based on the generics information for the function object invocation. Full Article
un Generic download and upload functionality in a client/server web application architecture By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT The present invention relates generally to client-server architectures for allowing generic upload and download functionality between a web application at a server and a client. One exemplary method includes sending a download/upload request to a web application at the server, where the download/upload request specifies at least one file to download/upload; receiving a transmission from the server; parsing the transmission to identify a download/upload command and an associated download/upload manifest, where the download/upload manifest includes executable code that, when executed on the client, will perform the download/upload of the at least one file. Full Article
un Malodor counteracting compositions and method for their use By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 08:00:00 EDT The present invention relates to the field of perfumery and more particularly to the field of malodor counteractancy. In particular, it relates to a method for application of malodor counteracting (MOC) compositions capable of neutralizing in an efficient manner, through chemical reactions, malodors of a large variety of origins and which can be encountered in the air, on textiles, bathroom or kitchen surfaces, and the like. The composition may be applied as is or in the form of a perfuming composition or in a consumer product or article containing the compound or perfume composition. Full Article
un Organoleptic compound By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 08:00:00 EDT The present invention is directed to a novel compound, but-2-enoic acid 1-ethyl-2-methyl-propyl ester, and a method of improving, enhancing or modifying a fragrance formulation through the addition of an olfactory acceptable amount of but-2-enoic acid 1-ethyl-2-methyl-propyl ester. Full Article
un Organoleptic compound By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:00:00 EDT The present invention is directed to a novel compound, but-2-enoic acid 1,2-dimethyl-butyl ester, and a method of improving, enhancing or modifying a fragrance formulation through the addition of an olfactory acceptable amount of but-2-enoic acid 1,2-dimethyl-butyl ester. Full Article
un Use of alkamides for masking an unpleasant flavor By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 08:00:00 EDT An individual alkamide and/or a mixture having two or more different alkamides, is disclosed for changing, masking or reducing the unpleasant flavor impression of an unpleasant-tasting substance or mixture of substances. The alkamide can be trans-pellitorine; cis-pellitorine; 2Z,4Z- or 2Z,4E-decadienoic acid-N-isobutylamide; 2E,4E-decadienoic acid-N-([2S]-2-methylbutyl)amide; 2E,4E-decadienoic acid-N-([2R]-2-methylbutylamide); 2E,4Z-decadienoic acid-N-(2-methylbutyl)amide; achilleamide; sarmentine; 2E- or 3E-decenoic acid-N-isobutylamide; 3E-nonenoic acid-N-isobutylamide; spilanthol; homospilanthol; 2E,6Z,8E-decatrienoic acid-N-([2R]-2-methylbutyl)amide; 2E- or 2Z-decen-4-oic acid-N-isobutylamide; α-sanshool; α-hydroxysanshool; γ-hydroxysanshool; γ-hydroxysanshool; γ-hydroxyisosanshool; γ-dehydrosanshool; γ-sanshool; bungeanool; isobungeanool; dihydrobungeanool; or tetrahydrobungeanool, or combinations thereof. Full Article
un Organic compounds By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 08:00:00 EST Disclosed are certain compounds according to the general formula (I) and their use as flavoring and fragrancing compounds, as well as fragranced and flavored compositions comprising the compounds of formula (I), and methods for providing a flavor or fragrance to compositions and articles utilizing the compounds of formula (I). Full Article
un Functional fragrance precursor By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 08:00:00 EST The present invention relates to a class of fragrance precursor compounds comprising one or more of the compounds derived from the reaction of X—OH and an aldehyde or ketone, the fragrance precursor compounds being of the formula X—O—C(R)(R*)(OR**) wherein R is a C6-24 alkyl group, a C6-24 aralkyl group or a C6-24 alkaryl group; R* is H or a C6-24 alkyl group, a C6-24 aralkyl group or a C6-24 alkaryl group; R** is H or X; X—O representing a moiety derived from X—OH, and wherein X—OH is a compound selected from the group consisting of surfactants, fabric softeners, softener precursor ester amines, softener precursor amido amines, hair conditioners, skin conditions, saccharides and polymers. In a second aspect it relates to a method of preparing such precusors. Further the invention relates to compositions, comprising the precursor of the invention. Full Article
un Functional fragrance precursor By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 08:00:00 EST The present invention relates to a class of fragrance precursor compounds comprising one or more of the compounds derived from the reaction of X—OH and an aldehyde or ketone, the fragrance precursor compounds being of the formula X—O—C(R)(R*)(OR**) wherein R is a C6-24 alkyl group, a C6-24 aralkyl group or a C6-24 alkaryl group; R* is H or a C6-24 alkyl group, a C6-24 aralkyl group or a C6-24 alkaryl group; R** is H or X; X—O representing a moiety derived from X—OH, and wherein X—OH is a compound selected from the group consisting of surfactants, fabric softeners, softener precursor ester amines, softener precursor amido amines, hair conditioners, skin conditions, saccharides and polymers. In a second aspect it relates to a method of preparing such precusors. Further the invention relates to compositions, comprising the precursor of the invention. Full Article
un Functional fragrance precursor By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 08:00:00 EST The present invention relates to a class of fragrance precursor compounds comprising one or more of the compounds derived from the reaction of X—OH and an aldehyde or ketone, the fragrance precursor compounds being of the formula X—O—C(R)(R*)(OR**) wherein R is a C6-24 alkyl group, a C6-24 aralkyl group or a C6-24 alkaryl group; R* is H or a C6-24 alkyl group, a C6-24 aralkyl group or a C6-24 alkaryl group; R** is H or X; X—O representing a moiety derived from X—OH, and wherein X—OH is a compound selected from the group consisting of surfactants, fabric softeners, softener precursor ester amines, softener precursor amido amines, hair conditioners, skin conditions, saccharides and polymers. In a second aspect it relates to a method of preparing such precusors. Further the invention relates to compositions, comprising the precursor of the invention. Full Article
un Functional fragrance precursor By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 08:00:00 EST The present invention relates to a class of fragrance precursor compounds comprising one or more of the compounds derived from the reaction of X—OH and an aldehyde or ketone, the fragrance precursor compounds being of the formula X—O—C(R)(R*)(OR**) wherein R is a C6-24 alkyl group, a C6-24 aralkyl group or a C6-24 alkaryl group; R* is H or a C6-24 alkyl group, a C6-24 aralkyl group or a C6-24 alkaryl group; R** is H or X; X—O representing a moiety derived from X—OH, and wherein X—OH is a compound selected from the group consisting of surfactants, fabric softeners, softener precursor ester amines, softener precursor amido amines, hair conditioners, skin conditions, saccharides and polymers. In a second aspect it relates to a method of preparing such precursors. Further the invention relates to compositions, comprising the precursor of the invention. Full Article
un Organic compounds By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 08:00:00 EST Compounds of formula (I) wherein: n=0, 1, 2, 3, andR=C2-C6 linear and branched alkyl, alkenyl and cycloalkyl substituents are interesting flavor or fragrance ingredients having herbal-green aspects. Full Article
un Organic compounds By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:00:00 EDT Described are spiroalkyl- and -alkenylketones and esters thereof, a method for their production and fragrance compositions comprising them. Full Article
un Separation of isomeric menthol compounds By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT The invention relates to a process for rectificative separation of compositions of matter containing diastereomers of 2-isopropyl-5-methylcyclohexanol by using ionic liquids as extractants. Full Article
un Optical resolution methods for bicyclic compounds using asymmetric catalysts By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 19 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT An optically active bicyclic compound is efficiently produced by optical resolution using an optically active amine. Full Article
un Washing system for nitroaromatic compounds By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT A method of removing alkalinity and salt from a nitroaromatic product downstream of water washing to remove mineral acids and alkaline washing to remove salts of organic acids, comprises washing the product stream with an acidic aqueous solution, prior to the step of removing excess organic reactant, by steam stripping or distillation. Acid removed from the stripper or column is recycled back for use in the acidic washing. The acidic washing is done instead of the neutral washing step of the prior art. It removes residual salt and decreases the level of entrained colloidal water in the nitroaromatic product. Full Article
un Vehicle notification sound emitting apparatus By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 08:00:00 EST A vehicle notification sound emitting apparatus is basically provided with a first sound emitting device, a second sound emitting device and a notification sound control device. The first sound emitting device emits a first intermittent notification sound inside a cabin interior of a vehicle. The second sound emitting device emits a second intermittent notification sound outside of the cabin interior of the vehicle. The notification sound control device operates the first and second sound emitting devices to separately emit the first and second intermittent notification sounds in at least a partially overlapping pattern in response to occurrence of a vehicle condition to convey a same type of vehicle information to both inside and outside of the cabin interior of the vehicle. The notification sound control device includes a cabin interior-exterior notification sound synchronizing section that is configured to synchronize the first and second intermittent notification sounds. Full Article
un Vehicle event recorder systems and networks having integrated cellular wireless communications systems By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 08:00:00 EST Vehicle event recorder systems are arranged to be in constant communication with remote servers and administrators via mobile wireless cellular networks. Vehicle event recorders equipped with video cameras capture video and other data records of important events relating to vehicle use. These data are then transmitted over special communications networks having very high coverage space but limited bandwidth. A vehicle may be operated over very large region while maintaining continuous communications connections with a remote fixed server. As such, systems of these inventions may be characterized as including a mobile unit having: a video camera; a microprocessor; memory; an event trigger; and mobile wireless transceivers, and a fixed network portion including: mobile wireless cellular network, a protocol translation gateway, the Internet and an application-specific server. Full Article
un Method and system for critical dimension uniformity using charged particle beam lithography By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 19 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT A method for mask data preparation or mask process correction is disclosed in which a set of charged particle beam shots is determined which is capable of forming a pattern on a surface, wherein critical dimension uniformity (CDU) of the pattern is optimized. In some embodiments the CDU is optimized by varying at least two factors. In other embodiments, model-based techniques are used. In yet other embodiments, the surface is a reticle to be used in an optical lithographic process to form a pattern on a wafer, and CDU on the wafer is optimized. Full Article
un Magnetic tunnel junction device and fabrication By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT A method of forming a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device includes forming a first MTJ cap layer on a MTJ structure. The first MTJ cap layer includes a first non-nitrified metal. The method also includes forming a second MTJ cap layer over the first MTJ cap layer. The second MTJ cap layer includes a second non-nitrified metal. The method further includes forming a top electrode layer over the second MTJ cap layer. The second MTJ cap layer is conductive and configured to reduce or prevent oxidation. Full Article
un Synthesis of fast squarer functional blocks By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT In one embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit (IC) design tool is provided for synthesizing logic, including one or more software modules to synthesize a gate-level netlist of a squarer functional block. The software modules include a bitvector generator, a bitvector reducer, and a hybrid multibit adder generator. The bitvector generator multiplies bits of a vector together to generate partial products for a plurality of bitvectors and then optimizes a plurality of least significant bitvectors. The bitvector reducer reduces the partial products in the bitvectors of the squarer functional block down to a pair of final vectors. The hybrid multibit adder generator generates a hybrid multibit adder including a first adder and a second adder coupled together by a carry bit with bit widths being responsive to a dividerbit. The hybrid multibit adder adds the pair of final vectors together to generate a final result for the squarer functional block. Full Article
un Fabrication of a magnetic tunnel junction device By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT A magnetic tunneling junction device and fabrication method is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable medium includes processor executable instructions. The instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to initiate deposition of a capping material on a free layer of a magnetic tunneling junction structure to form a capping layer. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to initiate oxidization of a first layer of the capping material to form a first oxidized layer of oxidized material. Full Article
un Rinse-off compositions comprising lactoyl ethanolamine and a menthanecarboxamide compound By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT A rinse-off composition, such as a shampoo, hair conditioner or shower gel, comprising a rinse-off composition base, lactoyl ethanolamine and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of N-(4-cyanomethylphenyl) p-menthanecarboxamide and N-(2-pyridin-2-ylethyl) p-menthanecarboxamide. The compositions provide a pleasant, long-lasting cooling sensation. Full Article
un Gemini surfactants, process of manufacture and use as multifunctional corrosion inhibitors By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT Gemini surfactants of bis-N-alkyl polyether, bis-N-alkenyl polyether, bis-N-cycloalkyl polyether, bis-N-aryl polyether bis-beta or alpha-amino acids or their salts, are produced for use as multifunctional corrosion inhibitors, which protect and prevent corrosion of ferrous metals exposed to acidic, basic and neutral liquids when transporting or storing crude oil and liquid fuels. The surfactants are also used to inhibit corrosion of equipment and pipes used in cooling systems in petroleum and petrochemical equipment. The Gemini surfactants have the structural formula: Full Article
un Method and apparatus for applying uniaxial compression stresses to a moving wire By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:00:00 EST An apparatus and method for moving a wire along its own axis against a high resistance to its motion causing a substantial uniaxial compression stress in the wire without allowing it to buckle. The apparatus consists of a wire gripping and moving drive wheel and guide rollers for transporting the moving wire away from the drive wheel. Wire is pressed into a peripheral groove in a relatively large diameter, rotating drive wheel by a set of small diameter rollers arranged along part of the periphery causing the wire to be gripped by the groove. Full Article
un Superconducting devices with ferromagnetic barrier junctions By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:00:00 EST A superconducting memory cell includes a magnetic Josephson junction (MJJ) with a ferromagnetic material, having at least two switchable states of magnetization. The binary state of the MJJ manifests itself as a pulse appearing, or not appearing, on the output. A superconducting memory includes an array of memory cells. Each memory cell includes a comparator with at least one MJJ. Selected X and Y-directional write lines in their combination are capable of switching the magnetization of the MJJ. A superconducting device includes a first and a second junction in a stacked configuration. The first junction has an insulating layer barrier, and the second junction has an insulating layer sandwiched in-between two ferromagnetic layers as barrier. An electrical signal inputted across the first junction is amplified across the second junction. Full Article
un Substrate for superconducting compound and method for manufacturing the substrate By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:00:00 EDT Provided are a substrate for a superconducting compound and a method for manufacturing the substrate which can realize the excellent adhesive strength simultaneously with high orientation of copper. An absorbed material on a surface of a copper foil to which rolling is applied at a draft of 90% or more is removed by applying sputter etching to the surface of the copper foil, sputter etching is applied to a nonmagnetic metal sheet, the copper foil and the metal sheet are bonded to each other by applying a pressure to the copper foil and the metal sheet using reduction rolls, crystals of the copper in the copper foil are oriented by heating a laminated body formed by such bonding, copper is diffused into the metal sheet by heating with a copper diffusion distance of 10 nm or more, and a protective layer is laminated to a surface of the copper foil of the laminated body. Full Article
un System with a superconductive cable and a surrounding cryostat By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:00:00 EDT A superconductive cable which has a cryostat with two concentric metal pipes where the cryostat has at least a first axial section with a first axial spring constant, and at least a second axial section which has a second axial spring constant which at most is 20%, more preferred at most 10%, of the axial spring constant of the first section. Full Article
un Intermediate connection unit of superconducting cables By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT In an intermediate connecting unit 50 of superconducting cables, by forming the connecting superconducting wires 101 in a trapezoid shape tapered in the direction of the electric insulating layer 113 (the superconducting shield layers 114) sides from the large radius section 213a side of the reinforcement insulating layer 213, the inclined surface sections 213b can be covered without spaces and without the plurality of connecting superconducting wires overlapping. The plurality of connecting superconducting wires 101 cover the inclined surface sections 213b of the reinforcement insulating layer 213 formed thicker than the radius of the cable cores 11 of the superconducting cables 10. The connecting superconducting wires 101 further connects the superconducting wires 10 arranged on the outer periphery of the large radius section 213a of the reinforcement insulating layer 213 and the superconducting wires 100 constituting the superconducting shield layers 114. Full Article
un Sound localization for user in motion By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 19 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT Methods, apparatus, and computer programs for simulating the source of sound are provided. One method includes operations for determining a location in space of the head of a user utilizing face recognition of images of the user. Further, the method includes an operation for determining a sound for two speakers, and an operation for determining an emanating location in space for the sound, each speaker being associated with one ear of the user. The acoustic signals for each speaker are established based on the location in space of the head, the sound, the emanating location in space, and the auditory characteristics of the user. In addition, the acoustic signals are transmitted to the two speakers. When the acoustic signals are played by the two speakers, the acoustic signals simulate that the sound originated at the emanating location in space. Full Article
un Automated communication integrator By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 19 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT An apparatus includes a plurality of applications and an integrator having a voice recognition module configured to identify at least one voice command from a user. The integrator is configured to integrate information from a remote source into at least one of the plurality of applications based on the identified voice command. A method includes analyzing speech from a first user of a first mobile device having a plurality of applications, identifying a voice command based on the analyzed speech using a voice recognition module, and incorporating information from the remote source into at least one of a plurality of applications based on the identified voice command. Full Article
un Method and system for facilitating communications for a user transaction By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 19 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT Current human-to-machine interfaces enable users to interact with a company's database and enter into a series of transactions (e.g., purchasing products/services and paying bills). Each transaction may require several operations or stages requiring user input or interaction. Some systems enable a user to enter a voice input parameter providing multiple operations of instruction (e.g., single natural language command). However, users of such a system do not know what types of commands the system is capable of accepting. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate communications for user transactions by determining a user's goal transaction and presenting a visual representation of a voice input parameter for the goal transaction. The use of visual representations notifies the user of the system's capability of accepting single natural language commands and the types of commands the system is capable of accepting, thereby enabling a user to complete a transaction in a shorter period of time. Full Article
un Extracting information from unstructured text using generalized extraction patterns By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for extracting information from unstructured text. Fact pairs are used to extract basic patterns from a body of text. Patterns are generalized by replacing words with classes of similar words. Generalized patterns are used to extract further fact pairs from the body of text. The process can begin with fact pairs, basic patterns, or generalized patterns. Full Article
un Manner of pronunciation-influenced search results By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating search results. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a transcription of a voice query, and data that identifies an accent of the voice query, submitting the transcription and the data that identifies the accent of the voice query to a search engine to generate one or more accent-influenced results of the voice query, and providing the accent-influenced results to a client device for display. Full Article
un User interface with enlarged icon display of key function By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT To improve the consumer experience with portable electronic devices, a user interface combines the use of capacitive sensors with tactile sensors in an input device. When a user places a finger, stylus, or other input instrument near a given key button, a capacitive sensor causes the display to display temporarily an indication of the function of that key in an enlarged format. The user may then press the associated key button to activate the desired function. In one exemplary embodiment, the capacitive sensor fixes the functionality to the function indicated in the display. In this embodiment, a tactile input applied to any key, whether the correct key, multiple keys, or a single incorrect key, results in activating the function indicated in the display as a result of the capacitive input. Full Article
un Detecting automated identities in computer user communities By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT A computer-implemented method of detecting automated identities, including. The method includes, using one or more computing devices, providing for display to a user a first representation of a first profile for a first identity and a second representation of a second profile for a second identity, providing for display to the user a choice indication mechanism for indicating a judgment about the first representation of the first profile for the first identity and the second representation of the second profile for the second identity, receiving an indication of the judgment from the user about the first representation of the first profile for the first identity and the second representation of the second profile for the second identity, and determining whether at least one of the first identity, the second identity, or the user is more or less likely to be automated, based at least in part on the received indication. Full Article
un System and method for functional elements By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 08:00:00 EDT Systems and methods whereby, for example, one or more functional elements can be established and/or employed. Such functional elements might serve a number of purposes. For instance, such functional elements might be employable in interoperating with devices, software, and/or the like, in working with entities, and/or the like. Such functional elements may, for example, be arrangeable in an associative and/or hierarchical manner. Full Article
un Isocyanate and isothiocyanate compounds for cancer treatment By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 08:00:00 EDT The present invention relates to novel isocyanate and isothiocyanate compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to the use thereof in the treatment of cancer diseases in humans and animals. The novel isocyanate and isothiocyanate compounds are distinguished, as compared with the known isocyanate and isothiocyanate compounds, by improved therapeutical breadth, i.e. fewer side effects while having high anti-tumor activity. Full Article
un Oxidized thiophospholipid compounds and uses thereof By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 08:00:00 EDT Novel oxidized thiophospholipids are provided herein, as well as methods for producing same, and uses thereof in treating or preventing an inflammation associated with endogenous oxidized lipids and related conditions. Exemplary oxidized thiophospholipid according to embodiments described herein have the formula: wherein X1, X2, A1, A2, B', B″, D' and D″ are as described herein. Full Article
un Phosphazene compound having vinyl group, resin composition containing the same, and circuit board manufactured from the same By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 08:00:00 EDT A phosphazene compound having a vinyl group is manufactured by a reaction between a vinyl compound and a phosphazene compound having a hydroxyl group and added to a resin composition for manufacturing a prepreg or a resin film so as to be applicable to copper-clad laminates and printed circuit boards to thereby achieve satisfactory circuit laminate properties, namely low coefficient of thermal expansion, low dielectric properties, heat resistant, fire resistant, and halogen-free. Full Article