Abstract:
A water retention dam including a collapsible outer shell having an inner chamber and at least one surface for preventing the passage of water. The outer shell has a first surface configured to serve as a barrier to water and a second surface for attachment to a floor. The second surface has a recess for receiving an adhesive.
Abstract:
A method is provided for avoiding the corruption of information which can occur when a processor nests subroutines and these subroutines disable and enable interrupts.
Abstract:
Rapid thread processing is achieved by transferring complete thread contexts between a memory and a context register set. Each thread context is read from a respective memory location in response to either a designated interrupt or an instruction.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a next generation communication system comprising a set of network nodes that are interconnected into a wireless mesh network, where a subset of the network nodes in the set are further coupled to a blockchain network that is configured to provide blockchain-based services, such as blockchain-based distributed data storage or a service for blockchain-based digital cryptocurrency mining.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a system comprising a first backhaul node, a second backhaul node, and multiple sites that each comprise a respective node configured to maintain a first communication link with the first backhaul node and a second communication link with the second backhaul node, operate in a first mode in which the respective node engages in communication with the first backhaul node over the first communication link and does not engage in communication with the second backhaul node over the second communication link, detect a triggering event associated with the first communication link, and in response to detecting the triggering event, dynamically switch from operating in the first mode to operating in a second mode in which the respective node engages in communication with the second backhaul node over the second communication link and does not engage in communication with the first backhaul node over the first communication link.
Abstract:
The present invention is a digital interactive mobile engagement recharging device for users to plug in personal mobile devices. The recharging device has an interactive touch display screen that connects to a computer and to the Internet to provide remote and real-time content push of interest to a user, and a plurality of recharging connections to accommodate various models and brands of mobile devices. The recharging system collects information about a user's mobile device and provides recharging services to the user's mobile device after the user accepts certain terms or conditions, outputs information such as the recharging status of a user's phone, commercial information selected by a computer based media system, where the selected information is based on the information collected by the input devices of the system and provides pre-selected or user demanded information. It is yet another object of the present invention to provide commercial data to a user based on the interactive information, such as the detected users' characteristics, location or temperature of the venue, and the like.
Abstract:
A system and method to render 3D images from a 2D source are described. An embodiment of a method to render 3D images from a 2D source comprises the steps of providing a graphics rendering device to estimate depth of a 2D image; providing video or graphics textures and depth-maps to describe an object in a 3D scene; creating, in one embodiment, a single view angle and in another preferred embodiment at least two view angles of the 3D scene to represent an intraocular distance using the graphics rendering device; and presenting both of the at least two view angles on a display using the graphics rendering device and especially the commonly available 3D imaging technology of the graphics rendering device.
Abstract:
A drum damper for a musical drum comprises a first portion including material having high impact strength and durability suitable for withstanding the forces generated by striking a musical drum. A second portion includes material having sound damping properties suitable for reducing the sound level generated by striking a musical drum.
Abstract:
A optical storage disk provides multiple logical disks without the need to physically alter the structure of the optical storage disk. According to one example embodiment of the present invention, a dual-layer data disk is adapted to store data in each of two layers readable by an optical disk reader. A first region of the disk includes data recorded for a first logical disk, and a second region is adapted to store data for a second logical disk, and the first and second regions are located on the two layers. Each of the data logical disks includes a lead-in region and a lead-out region and for data therebetween traversing each of the two layers. The lead-out region of the first logical disk stores pointing data which points to the lead-in region of second logical disk, and the logical disks are not necessarily physically contiguous.
Abstract:
To minimize the time and resources typically associated with collision detection in a single channel communications system, this invention provides a method and apparatus for a collision based protocol that assures that one device in the system always wins a collision conflict. A device in accordance with this invention that is assured of always winning a collision conflict need not contain a collision detector, nor the storage resources typically used to buffer the effects of a collision. The device is also always assured of continuous transmission access once its transmission begins. This continuous transmission access is particularly well suited for high speed data access devices such as magnetic disks, laser discs, and the like, that access data continually as the disk passes by their read heads.