Abstract:
User profile information for many users may be stored in a user profile database associated with a server computer connected to a network. Based on information received from a mobile computing device, the server computer selects augment information from an augment information database coupled with the user profile database. The information received from the mobile computing device is related to frames of a video stream being captured by the mobile computing device and geographical information associated with these frames. The augment information is also selected based on the user profile associated with the mobile computing device. The augment information is to be transmitted from the server computer to the mobile computing device using wireless communication and is used by the mobile computing device to overlay the frames of the video stream being captured by the mobile computing device.
Abstract:
An integrated electronics housing contains both system electronics and power generation circuits for a two-axis tracker assembly having a CPV solar array. The housing contains at least a communication bus, motion control circuits, and inverter circuits, and acts as the local system control point for that tracker mechanism. The inverter circuits generate three-phase AC voltage that is supplied to a grid interface transformer. Each inverter receives a bipolar DC voltage supplied from its own set of CPV cells. The motion control circuits move the CPV cells of the tracker mechanism to angular coordinates resulting from a solar tracking algorithm. The communication bus connects to the motion control circuits and the inverter circuits to facilitate communications of information, including parameters of power being generated by the inverter circuits, between the motion control circuits and the AC inverter circuits to fine tune the AC power generated out of the tracker mechanism.
Abstract:
A method, apparatus, and system in which an interconnect for an integrated circuit communicates transactions between one or more initiator Intellectual Property (IP) cores and one or more target IP cores coupled to the interconnect, including a power manager having a hierarchy of two or more layers including a hardware logic portion to control a power consumption of two or more domains in the integrated circuit, where each layer of the power manager performs its own function; wherein the power manager has its own dedicated CPU or dedicated state machine to execute power management instructions; and wherein the power manager controls the power consumption of two or more domains without using a CPU IP core utilized by other IP cores on the integrated circuit to execute power management instructions.
Abstract:
Various processes and apparatus are discussed for an ultra-high heat flux chemical reactor. A thermal receiver and the reactor tubes are aligned to 1 ) absorb and re-emit radiant energy, 2) highly reflect radiant energy, and 3) any combination of these, to maintain an operational temperature of the enclosed ultra-high heat flux chemical reactor. Particles of biomass are gasified in the presence of a steam carrier gas and methane in a simultaneous steam reformation and steam biomass gasification reaction to produce reaction products that include hydrogen and carbon monoxide gas using the ultra-high heat flux thermal energy radiated from the inner wall and then into the multiple reactor tubes. The multiple reactor tubes and cavity walls of the receiver transfer energy primarily by radiation absorption and re-radiation, rather than by convection or conduction, to the reactants in the chemical reaction to drive the endothermic chemical reaction flowing in the reactor tubes.
Abstract:
A method, apparatus, and system for an order proxy are provided. In an embodiment, an example order proxy system implemented in software, hardware logic, or a combination of both, may be configured to allow an e-commerce digital shopping cart to submit and complete transaction orders. An embodiment uses various necessary information and steps for completing a transaction into an e-commerce system without there being any prior software integration between fields and transaction processing steps coded into the shopping cart. A first commerce system may complete a transaction order through the order proxy system. Additionally, the order proxy system may have a merchant cart configuration map module to map the shopping cart information into a merchant server's shopping cart process.
Abstract:
An Ethernet exchanger connected to private Ethernet networks of participating carriers to enable the private Ethernet networks to be interconnected at a common point. The Ethernet exchanger not biased to any participating carrier and is configured to receive, translate and transmit frames from one private Ethernet network to another private Ethernet network. The frame translation is performed by the Ethernet exchanger is based on the profiles of the participating carriers. The profiles are created based on information provided by the participating carriers using templates presented by an online web portal.
Abstract:
An Ethernet exchanger is coupled to two or more Ethernet networks to exchange information among the two or more Ethernet networks using virtual circuits. A first Ethernet network is associated with a first carrier and a first port of the Ethernet exchanger. A second Ethernet network is associated with a second carrier and a second port of the Ethernet exchanger. Network information of the first Ethernet network and network information of the second Ethernet network are provided by the respective first earner and the second earner and stored in a database. A virtual circuit is provisioned to interconnect the first Ethernet network and the second Ethernet network based on a partnership between the first earner and the second earner and based on the stored information about the first network and the second network. The virtual circuit is associated with the first port and the second port.
Abstract:
A method, apparatus, and system for a solar-driven chemical reactor are disclosed, including a solar thermal receiver aligned to absorb concentrated solar energy. Some embodiments include a solar driven chemical reactor that has multiple reactor tubes. Some embodiments include one of 1) one or more apertures open to an atmosphere of the Earth or 2) one or more windows, to pass the concentrated solar energy into the solar thermal receiver. This energy impinges on the multiple reactor tubes and cavity walls of the receiver and transfer energy by solar radiation absorption and heat radiation, convection, and conduction. In this way, the energy causes reacting particles to drive the endothermic chemical reaction flowing in the reactor tubes. The design of the multiple reactor tubes and solar thermal receiver can be adapted per a solar flux profile to take advantage of variations in the concentrations of solar flux in the profile.
Abstract:
A method, apparatus, and system for a solar-driven biorefinery that may include a entrained-flow biomass feed system that is feedstock flexible via particle size control of the biomass. Some embodiments include a chemical reactor that receives concentrated solar thermal energy from an array of heliostats. The entrained-flow biomass feed system can use an entrainment carrier gas and supplies a variety of biomass sources fed as particles into the solar- driven chemical reactor. Biomass sources in a raw state or partially torrified state may be used, as long as parameters such as particle size of the biomass are controlled. Additionally, concentrated solar thermal energy can drive gasification of the particles. An on-site fuel synthesis reactor may receive the hydrogen and carbon monoxide products from the gasification reaction use the hydrogen and carbon monoxide products in a hydrocarbon fuel synthesis process to create a liquid hydrocarbon fuel.
Abstract:
A cyber security restoration engine takes one or more autonomous remediation actions to remediate one or more nodes in a graph of a system being protected back to a trusted operational state in order to assist in a recovery from the cyber threat. The cyber security restoration engine has a tracking component the operational state of each node in the graph of the protected system. The communication module also cooperates with the cyber security restoration engine to communicate with at least one of an external backup system and a recovery service to invoke backup remediation actions and/or recovery remediation actions to remediate one or more nodes potentially compromised by the cyber threat back to a trusted operational state, for example the state before the detected compromise by the cyber threat occurred in the protected system.