摘要:
A method and apparatus are provided for a user to construct a payload comprising content, such as multimedia, or references to content. The payload may be provided with further elements, such as a title or initial comments. The payload may be sent to any immediate contact of the user. Upon receipt by other users, the payload may be forwarded to any of the others' immediate contacts. Additionally, comments can be made by anyone in receipt of the payload for others in receipt of the payload to view. A social networking mechanism is provided, wherein a record is made for each forwarding of a payload and introductions can be made between individuals lying in the same forwarding chain of a payload. Immediate contacts can be collected into groups for ease in addressing. Teams of users can send and forward messages among themselves or to others outside of the team, according to predetermined rules and individuals' standing within the team. Users are provided with a sortable, filterable list of payloads sent to them. A thumbnail of each payload is provided to allow a user the opportunity to quickly assess the nature of the content. Payloads and invitations to join may be sent to people outside the system via email or as an instant message.
摘要:
A method for monitoring the health of a turbine is provided. The method comprises monitoring a turbine engine having a plurality of engine modules and determining one or more health estimates, which may included trended data, for one or more of the engine modules, based on a plurality of engine parameters. The method further determining and transmitting appropriate notifications that indicate repairs to be made to the turbine engine.
摘要:
Pursuant to some embodiments, methods, systems, apparatus, computer program code and means for verifying a cardholder during a transaction involving a transaction device and a terminal are provided. Pursuant to some embodiments, the invention includes transmitting biometric rule information from a transaction device to a terminal, the biometric rule information defining a biometric sample to be acquired at the terminal, receiving, from the terminal, a detected biometric sample. The detected biometric sample is compared to a biometric reference template stored in the transaction device, and the cardholder is verified if the detected biometric sample matches the biometric reference template.
摘要:
A tag system uses dots to store a very large binary number and combined with the Digital Image Processing functions to allow for a reliable recovery of the tag code regardless of the orientation of the tag to the reader and without the need for the tag pattern to incorporate any form of fiducial mark.
摘要:
A facility for tracking the sharing of distinguished content is described. When a user seeks to access the distinguished content from a client computer system using a URL associated with the distinguished content, the facility determines whether a user identifier is represented in the URL. If a user identifier is represented in the URL that is different from a user identifier that is persistently stored by the client computer system, the facility determines that the distinguished content has been shared with a user identified by the user identifier that is persistently stored by the client computer system by a user identified by the identifier represented in the URL.
摘要:
A method and apparatus are provided for a user to construct a payload comprising content, such as multimedia, or references to content. The payload may be provided with further elements, such as a title or initial comments. The payload may be sent to any immediate contact of the user. Upon receipt by other users, the payload may be forwarded to any of the others' immediate contacts. Additionally, comments can be made by anyone in receipt of the payload for others in receipt of the payload to view. A social networking mechanism is provided, wherein a record is made for each forwarding of a payload and introductions can be made between individuals lying in the same forwarding chain of a payload. Immediate contacts can be collected into groups for ease in addressing. Teams of users can send and forward messages among themselves or to others outside of the team, according to predetermined rules and individuals' standing within the team. Users are provided with a sortable, filterable list of payloads sent to them. A thumbnail of each payload is provided to allow a user the opportunity to quickly assess the nature of the content. Payloads and invitations to join may be sent to people outside the system via email or as an instant message.
摘要:
An analytical test device incorporating a dry porous carrier to which a liquid sample, eg. urine, suspected of containing an analyte such as HCG or LH can be applied indirectly, the device also incorporating a labelled specific binding reagent which is freely mobile in the porous carrier when in the moist state, and an unlabelled specific binding reagent which is permanently immobilised in a detection zone on the carrier material, the labelled and unlabelled specific binding reagents being capable of participating in either a sandwich reaction or a competition reacts on in the presence of the analyte, in which prior to the application to the device of a liquid sample suspected of containing the analyte, the labelled specific binding reagent is retained in the dry state in a macroporous body, eg. of plastics material having a pore size of 10 microns or greater, through which the applied liquid sample must pass en route to the porous carrier material, the labelled specific binding reagent being freely soluble or dispersible in any liquid sample which enters the macroporous body.
摘要:
Compounds according to general formula 1, wherein A1-A3 are selected from A5 and A6 where A5 is either ═CR13— or ═N— and A6 is —NR14—, —O— or —S—; A4 is either a covalent bond or A5, provided that when A4 is a covalent bond one of A1-A3 must be A6 and the other two must be A5 and when A4 is A5 then all of A1-A3 must be A5; R1 is selected from H, NHY′ and COY2, in which case R2 is H, or R1 and R2 may both be methyl or together represent ═O; R3, R4 and R5 are each independently selected from H and lower alkyl groups; R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11 and R12 are each independently selected from H, lower alkyl groups, NH2, halogens (F, Cl and Br) O-alkyl, CH2NM2 and CF3; R13 is selected from H, F, Cl Br, NO2, NH2, OH, Me, Et, OMe, NMe2 and CF3; R14 is selected from H, methyl and ethyl; W is selected from ═CH— and ═N—; X is selected from CH2, O, S, SO2, NH and N lower alkyl; Y1 is selected from CO-lower alkyl, CO(CH2)bY3, CO(CH2)bCOY3 and CO(CH)NHCOY3, where b is 1-3; Y2 is selected from OR15, NR16R17 and NH(CH2)CCOY3, where c is 1-3; Y3 is selected from OR15 and NR16R17; R15 is selected from H, lower alkyl and (CH2)aR16, where a is 0-4; R16 and R17 are each independently selected from H, lower alkyl and (CH2)aR16 or together are —(CH2)2-Z-(CH2)2—; R18 is OH a phenyl group or an aromatic heterocycle selected from pyridyl, pyrimidinyl, pyrazinyl, furyl, thienyl, pyrrolyl, imidazolyl, pyrazolyl, oxazolyl, isoxazolyl, thiazolyl, isothiazolyl, triazolyl, oxadiazolyl and thiadiazolyl, each of which may optionally have a lower alkyl group substituent; and Z is selected from O, CH2, S, SO2, NH and N-lower alkyl, are new. They are useful in the treatment of breast and prostate cancer, endometriosis and benign prostate hyperplasia, in the regulation of fertility, and in in vitro fertilisation.
摘要:
A primary or secondary game for a gaming device. In one embodiment, the player is provided up to three picks, i.e., picks three contestants. The first two contestants both form potential award offers. The game then provides the greater of the two potential award offers to the player as an initial offer. This initial sequence alternatives includes more than two picks, contestants and potential offers. The offer acceptance feature arises after the initial offer. The player must decide whether to keep the initial offer or forego that offer for a final offer. If the player keeps the offer the game provides that initial offer to the player and ends if the player rejects that initial offer, the game proceeds to build a third and final offer, which is then provided to the player automatically.
摘要:
A primary or secondary game for a gaming device. In one embodiment, the player is provided up to three picks, i.e., picks three contestants. The first two contestants both form potential award offers. The game then provides the greater of the two potential award offers to the player as an initial offer. This initial sequence alternatives includes more than two picks, contestants and potential offers. The offer acceptance feature arises after the initial offer. The player must decide whether to keep the initial offer or forego that offer for a final offer. If the player keeps the offer the game provides that initial offer to the player and ends if the player rejects that initial offer, the game proceeds to build a third and final offer, which is then provided to the player automatically.