Abstract: In one example, a method includes receiving, from a mobile wireless device, a care request that includes a user description of a request for service that identifies a problem experienced by the user concerning operation of the mobile wireless device and/or a wireless communication network. The method further includes correlating the problem with data associated with one or more peer mobile wireless devices, where the correlating is based on wireless communication network analytics performed with respect to the peer mobile wireless devices. As well, the method includes identifying a probable cause for the problem based on results of the correlating, automatically matching the probable cause of the problem to a proposed solution, automatically transmitting to the mobile wireless device, information identifying the probable cause of, and the proposed solution to, the problem, and implementing the proposed solution when user input is received indicating user permission for such implementation.

Abstract: In one example, performance of a method facilitates an improvement in a wireless communication service provided to a user of a mobile wireless communication device, and includes receiving a user input signal indicating a perception by the user that performance of a mobile wireless communication device is unsatisfactory, retrieving, in response to receipt of the user input signal, device configuration information, and information concerning the location of a mobile wireless communication device at about the time that the user input signal was received, presenting the user with a list of user-selectable problem descriptions, and receiving a user input signal indicating user selection of one of the listed problem descriptions, transmitting, to a server, a request for assistance concerning the user-identified problem, and uploading, to the server, cached analytics stored at a mobile wireless communication device and corresponding to the selected problem description.

Abstract: In one example, a method includes receiving, from a mobile wireless device, a care request that includes a user description of a request for service that identifies a problem experienced by the user concerning operation of the mobile wireless device and/or a wireless communication network. The method further includes correlating the problem with data associated with one or more peer mobile wireless devices, where the correlating is based on wireless communication network analytics performed with respect to the peer mobile wireless devices. As well, the method includes identifying a probable cause for the problem based on results of the correlating, automatically matching the probable cause of the problem to a proposed solution, automatically transmitting to the mobile wireless device, information identifying the probable cause of, and the proposed solution to, the problem, and implementing the proposed solution when user input is received indicating user permission for such implementation.

Abstract: A customer self-service tuning system assists a mobile device user in adjusting his network settings and device configuration. Device, network and performance metrics are stored for a population. Over time all of these suggest changes in the device or network that change measured performance. The potential improvement(s) are presented to the user for selection. Performance measurements are taken and the user can choose to go forward with the new configuration or to revert. Each time a user requests self-care service, a new cohort is extracted from the then current overall population and analyzed for similarity to the user at that point in time. Each time an improvement is selected, the history of device states and network states is augmented. Identified variances are transformed into an action plan specific to a user and implemented on the device or network upon concurrence.

Abstract: A customer self-service tuning system assists a mobile device user in adjusting his network settings and device configuration. Device, network and performance metrics are stored for a population. Over time all of these suggest changes in the device or network that change measured performance. The potential improvement(s) are presented to the user for selection. Performance measurements are taken and the user can choose to go forward with the new configuration or to revert. Each time a user requests self-care service, a new cohort is extracted from the then current overall population and analyzed for similarity to the user at that point in time. Each time an improvement is selected, the history of device states and network states is augmented. Identified variances are transformed into an action plan specific to a user and implemented on the device or network upon concurrence.

Abstract: A customer self-service tuning system assists a mobile device user in adjusting his network settings and device configuration. Device, network and performance metrics are stored for a population. Over time all of these suggest changes in the device or network that change measured performance. The potential improvement(s) are presented to the user for selection. Performance measurements are taken and the user can choose to go forward with the new configuration or to revert. Each time a user requests self-care service, a new cohort is extracted from the then current overall population and analyzed for similarity to the user at that point in time. Each time an improvement is selected, the history of device states and network states is augmented. Identified variances are transformed into an action plan specific to a user and implemented on the device or network upon concurrence.

Abstract: A conveyor system with a knife for cutting food items into smaller food items includes a first rotatable knife device having a knife blade, and a conveying system for conveying food items to be cut. The rotatable knife device is positioned above a carrying surface of the conveying system with the knife plane of the rotatable knife device extending through a first gap. The rotatable knife device is adapted for cutting a food item into smaller food items while the food item passes the first gap. The shape of the carrying surface around the first gap is concave and essentially follows the knife path of the rotatable knife blade.

Abstract: A system communicatively couples a server to a plurality of mobile wireless device clients to receive and track customer care related information which has been captured on any one of the clients. The server uses information sent by a client to initiate a customer care request ticket and responds to the client request with a ticket number and request description compiled using the information from the client. A system receives from a mobile device user a request to tuneup, a devstate extracted from a cache stored in the mobile device, and proposes at least one delta devstate operation to resolve the perception; making an adjustment or guiding the user to make an adjustment to execute the proposed delta operation; and at the end of an evaluation period, offers to revert to the stored prior state; to accept the delta state; or to continue the tuneup process.

Abstract: In one example, performance of a method facilitates an improvement in a wireless communication service provided to a user of a mobile wireless communication device, and includes receiving a user input signal indicating a perception by the user that performance of a mobile wireless communication device is unsatisfactory, retrieving, in response to receipt of the user input signal, device configuration information, and information concerning the location of a mobile wireless communication device at about the time that the user input signal was received, presenting the user with a list of user-selectable problem descriptions, and receiving a user input signal indicating user selection of one of the listed problem descriptions, transmitting, to a server, a request for assistance concerning the user-identified problem, and uploading, to the server, cached analytics stored at a mobile wireless communication device and corresponding to the selected problem description.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting food objects conveyed from an inlet conveyor to an adjacent outlet conveyor. A moving mechanism is operably connected to the outlet conveyor to provide movement of the inlet end of the outlet conveyor from an adjacent position. The inlet end of the outlet conveyor is moved from a position adjacent to the outlet end of the inlet conveyor to an open position and back to an adjacent position. A cutting device cuts the food objects into portions and trim. A control unit controls the moving mechanism to move the inlet end of the outlet conveyor to an open position when separating trim portions to fall as desired and subsequently instructs the inlet end the outlet conveyor to move back to the adjacent position before the next cutting to provide a support for the remaining parts of the food object.

Abstract: A cutting device adapted to be placed above a gap extending across a carrying surface of a conveyor system with the cutting plane of the cutting device extending through the gap. The cutting device cuts food items into smaller food items via rotational movement of the cutting device while the food items conveyed by the conveyor system pass the gap. The cutting device includes an arm and a cutting blade mounted to one end of the arm. The opposite end of the arm is adapted to be mounted to a driving unit for supplying rotational movement of the arm and thus the cutting blade. A cutting edge side of the cutting blade engages with the food item under an angle such that the cutting blade exerts with a downwardly facing force onto the food item and towards the carrying surface of the conveyor system during the cutting.

Abstract: A customer self-service tuning system assists a mobile device user in adjusting his network settings and device configuration. Device, network and performance metrics are stored for a population. Over time all of these suggest changes in the device or network that change measured performance. The potential improvement(s) are presented to the user for selection. Performance measurements are taken and the user can choose to go forward with the new configuration or to revert. Each time a user requests self-care service, a new cohort is extracted from the then current overall population and analyzed for similarity to the user at that point in time. Each time an improvement is selected, the history of device states and network states is augmented. Identified variances are transformed into an action plan specific to a user and implemented on the device or network upon concurrence.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cutting apparatus for cutting food objects into smaller food products, wherein the cutting apparatus includes an infeed conveyor having a first end and a second end, a conveyor system having a first end and a second end, the conveyor system being arranged such that the first end of the conveyor system is adjacent and parallel to the second end of the infeed conveyor defining a first slit there between, and a first cutting unit having a cutting plane extending through the first slit and controlled by a control unit for cutting food objects conveyed by the infeed conveyor into smaller food products, wherein the first slit and the cutting plane of the cutting unit form an angle to an axis perpendicular to the conveying direction.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting food objects conveyed from an inlet conveyor to an adjacent outlet conveyor. A moving mechanism is operably connected to the outlet conveyor to provide movement of the inlet end of the outlet conveyor from an adjacent position. The inlet end of the outlet conveyor is moved from a position adjacent to the outlet end of the inlet conveyor to an open position and back to an adjacent position. A cutting device cuts the food objects into portions and trim. A control unit controls the moving mechanism to move the inlet end of the outlet conveyor to an open position when separating trim portions to fall as desired and subsequently instructs the inlet end the outlet conveyor to move back to the adjacent position before the next cutting to provide a support for the remaining parts of the food object.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for increasing the capacity and precision of a portion cutter wherein the items to be portion cut are positioned abutting each other. In particular are provided a method and apparatus for identifying a boundary between consecutive items to be cut when the items are placed on a conveyor abutting each other with little or no gab between the items. At least one characteristic is measured for each of the items, and at least one process parameter is controlled in order to achieve predetermined product portions from the items based on the measured characteristic.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for increasing the capacity and precision of a portion cutter wherein the items to be portion cut are positioned abutting each other. In particular are provided means for identifying a boundary between consecutive items to be cut when the items are placed on a conveyor abutting each other with little or no gab between the items. At least one characteristic is measured for each of the items, and at least one process parameter is controlled in order to achieve predetermined product portions from the items based on the measured characteristic.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an apparatus for portion cutting of products, such as fool products (1), said apparatus comprising cutting means (2) for sectioning the products (1); scanning means (6) for detecting at least one characteristic of the product; conveying means (4) for transporting the product from the scanning means to the cutting means, and control means for controlling and regulating at least one relevant cutting process parameters in order to achieve predetermined product potions based on the detected product characteristics, wherein the conveying means comprises at least one conveyor unit (4) having two substantially parallel conveyors (4a; 4b) each having an upper conveying surface, said upper conveying surfaces being inclined relative to each other, so that the conveying surfaces of the conveyors have a mutual angle different from 180° in a traverse direction of the conveying direction.

Abstract: In a method of detecting and segmenting characteristic regions in an image, such as a colour image having characteristic regions, where the image is represented by a plurality of pixel values expressed in grey tones, a circle of radius r is defined for a plurality of pixel positions, which radius approximated is regarded as the radius of a characteristic region. The optimum value of radius r is determined by calculating, for a large number of possible values of r, the difference between the characteristic grey tone value of an outer zone having the radius range r1 to qr1 (=r2), where q is a constant, and the characteristic grey tone value of an inner zone having the radius range 0 to r1. Then the radius r1 providing the greatest difference is selected as the radius of the object.

Abstract: An optical transmission system is formed to include an optical phase conjugator at alternate repeater sites to minimize the presence of four-wave mixing and other Kerr effect nonlinearities in systems using optical fiber transmission paths (particularly in systems using DWDM and launching relatively high power signals into the low dispersion fiber). Raman gain is included in each fiber span (or in alternate fiber spans) so as to provide a “negative absorption” along the length of the fiber and thereby provide for essentially symmetrical power distribution along the length of each span, where the presence of such a symmetric,power distribution on each side of an optical phase conjugator has been found to significantly improve its performance.

Abstract: An optical translator that includes an interferometer and a plurality of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) coupled to the interferometer. The at least two of the SOAs receives data and a clock signal. The data is received by the at least two SOAs at different times. A coupler combines each of a respective output of the at least two SOAs to provide output data. The output data is a retimed and a reshaped signal of the data provided to at least one of the plurality of SOAs.