Abstract: Sensors measuring body conditions forward their data to a concentration point which transmits to a cellular phone through a wireless communication. The cellular phone incorporates a program which formats the data as a multimedia call. Information regarding status is transmitted using session initiated protocol or packet-based multimedia communications. The a second user's cellular phone is connected to a series of acupuncture needles connected to a cellular phone distributor through a network of thin electrical wires, which may be integrated into a wearable body item such as a glove, body shirt, full body garment, mask or the like. A program interprets the communication from the sending user and translates it into positive or negative stimuli.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for use in a variety of communications systems providing one or more payment alternatives for communication services and automatically selecting of a group of alternative payment techniques while significantly reducing the amount of interactive activity required from the user. Upon entry of a request to establish communications between calling and called electronic devices, the system initially looks towards a primary service provider. Absent acceptance of the request for service by the primary service provider, for whatever reason, the system automatically reverts to an alternative service provider and/or payment provider by searching data provided by the user and coupled to the electronic device for which a communication link is requested, eliminating the need for any further input by the user in the form of redialing the call, providing data through insertion of a debit or credit card, for example, identifying the alternative payment provider.

Abstract: The invention concerns a speed transmission apparatus, comprising a first rotary crankcase (3), a double planetary gearset, a first rotation transmission (12, 20, 21) arranged at an intermediate output of the first gearset, a second rotation transmission (14) arranged at an intermediate input of the second gearset, a first intermediate shaft (20) arranged in one of said first and second transmission, a first electric compression brake (24) acting on the first intermediate shaft (20) and capable of modifying a rotational speed thereof, and drive means (25) electrically connected to the first compression brake (24), an electrical connection capable of being provided between the first compression brake (24) and a second compression brake (26) whereof the effect is to accelerate the second intermediate shaft (23) by the braking effect exerted on the first intermediate shaft (20) by the compression brake, the energy released by the compression brake (24) being thus recovered by the compression brake (26) and trans

Abstract: A method enables a gas turbine engine nozzle to be secured within an engine casing that includes an exterior surface. The method comprises the steps of forming a first opening to extend through the engine casing, inserting a nozzle lock through the first opening from the casing exterior surface, coupling the nozzle lock to a portion of the nozzle, and securing the nozzle lock to the engine casing.

Abstract: Alternate methods, devices and systems are presented for providing service providers and/or end users of mobile stations to monitor and/or report regions with high error rates and/or dead zones. A protocol is provided such as to yield the error occurrence, error rate and/or the address of the end user. In some embodiments it also contains location information and time of day information. This information may be collected from the G.P.S., and/or all or a portion of users when there is a significant transmission difficulty and/or an abundance of errors. The collected data forms a database which is analyzed to generate coverage maps. This may include the dynamic aspects of the mobile network. In another aspect of this invention, each mobile station periodically compares its current location with the data base. The results of this comparison enables the mobile unit to anticipate connection problems.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for use in a variety of communications systems providing one or more payment alternatives for communication services and automatically selecting of a group of alternative payment techniques while significantly reducing the amount of interactive activity required from the user. Upon entry of a request to establish communications between calling and called electronic devices, the system initially looks towards a primary service provider. Absent acceptance of the request for service by the primary service provider, for whatever reason, the system automatically reverts to an alternative service provider and/or payment provider by searching data provided by the user and coupled to the electronic device for which a communication link is requested, eliminating the need for any further input by the user in the form of redialing the call, providing data through insertion of a debit or credit card, for example, identifying the alternative payment provider.

Abstract: A method enables a gas turbine engine nozzle to be secured within an engine casing that includes an exterior surface. The method comprises the steps of forming a first opening to extend through the engine casing, inserting a nozzle lock through the first opening from the casing exterior surface, coupling the nozzle lock to a portion of the nozzle, and securing the nozzle lock to the engine casing.

Abstract: A data framer capable of supporting at least two different data framing protocols potentially present in a source data stream includes two or more framing circuits and a controller coupled to the framing circuits. Each of the framing circuits is configured to extract user data from the source data stream in accordance with a different data framing protocol associated with the respective framing circuit. The controller is operative to: (i) receive the source data stream and automatically determine which of the at least two different data framing protocols corresponds to the source data stream; and (ii) route the source data stream to one of the first framing circuit and the second framing circuit in response to a match between the determined data framing protocol of the source data stream and one of the first and second data framing protocols.

Abstract: Alternate methods, devices and systems are presented for providing service providers and/or end users of mobile stations to monitor and/or report regions with high error rates and/or dead zones. A protocol is provided such as to yield the error occurrence, error rate and/or the address of the end user. In some embodiments it also contains location information and time of day information. This information may be collected from the G.P.S., and/or all or a portion of users when there is a significant transmission difficulty and/or an abundance of errors. The collected data forms a database which is analyzed to generate coverage maps. This may include the dynamic aspects of the mobile network. In another aspect of this invention, each mobile station periodically compares its current location with the data base. The results of this comparison enables the mobile unit to anticipate connection problems.

Abstract: A separator and stacker apparatus and method for separating a completed stack of web product from a stack of product being built thereafter. Preferred embodiments of the present invention utilize a stack building carriage having a forked or slotted floor cooperating with a load finger assembly to discharge the completed product stack from the stack building carriage. The load finger assembly preferably has a set of load fingers which mesh with the carriage floor so that when the load finger assembly is actuated, the load fingers pass substantially unobstructed through the stack building carriage. The load finger assembly and the stack building carriage can therefore pass through their motions independently of one another, permitting the stack building carriage to return to a stack building position without waiting for the load finger assembly to retract.

Abstract: A heat removal system for integrated circuit chips, lasers, portable electronic devices, and the like which produce destructive amounts of heat employs a device which delivers working fluid to a high heat flux surface in a manner to avoid any change in phase of the fluid. The invention is based on the recognition that the heat flux produced by such sources is so high that prior art heat sinks fail to remove heat at a sufficient rate from a high heat flux surface and become inefficient in removing heat. The fluid here is maintained at a pressure and pumped at a rate to provide a sufficiently short dwell time to maintain the fluid in a supracritical state thus avoiding vapor lock. The fluid also may be cooled by, for example, either an evaporative or an absorption chiller driven by the heat from the heat source or by a thermoelectric cooler.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for use in a variety of communications systems providing one or more payment alternatives for communication services and automatically selecting of a group of alternative payment techniques while significantly reducing the amount of interactive activity required from the user. Upon entry of a request to establish communications between calling and called electronic devices, the system initially looks towards a primary service provider. Absent acceptance of the request for service by the primary service provider, for whatever reason, the system automatically reverts to an alternative service provider and/or payment provider by searching data provided by the user and coupled to the electronic device for which a communication link is requested, eliminating the need for any further input by the user in the form of redialing the call, providing data through insertion of a debit or credit card, for example, identifying the alternative payment provider.

Abstract: A heat removal system for integrated circuit chips, lasers, portable electronic devices, and the like which produce destructive amounts of heat employs a device which delivers working fluid to a high heat flux surface in a manner to avoid any change in phase of the fluid. The invention is based on the recognition that the heat flux produced by such sources is so high that prior art heat sinks fail to remove heat at a sufficient rate from a high heat flux surface and become inefficient in removing heat. The fluid here is maintained at a pressure and pumped at a rate to provide a sufficiently short dwell time to maintain the fluid in a supracritical state thus avoiding vapor lock. The fluid also may be cooled by, for example, either an evaporative or an absorption chiller driven by the heat from the heat source or by a thermoelectric cooler.

Abstract: A data framer capable of supporting at least two different data framing protocols potentially present in a source data stream includes two or more framing circuits and a controller coupled to the framing circuits. Each of the framing circuits is configured to extract user data from the source data stream in accordance with a different data framing protocol associated with the respective framing circuit. The controller is operative to: (i) receive the source data stream and automatically determine which of the at least two different data framing protocols corresponds to the source data stream; and (ii) route the source data stream to one of the first framing circuit and the second framing circuit in response to a match between the determined data framing protocol of the source data stream and one of the first and second data framing protocols.

Abstract: A two-phase asynchronous print tracking system and method is described. The separation of detection of print activity and billing of print activity is accomplished by means of a quota-based message queue. Print jobs sent by a user are allowed to print without interruption until a quota number of print jobs for which no billing information has been entered are reached. When the quota is exceeded, the user may not continue until appropriate billing information is entered.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for identifying speakers participating in an audio-video source, whether or not such speakers have been previously registered or enrolled. The speaker identification system uses an enrolled speaker database that includes background models for unenrolled speakers, such as “unenrolled male” or “unenrolled female,” to assign a speaker label to each identified segment. Speaker labels are identified for each speech segment by comparing the segment utterances to the enrolled speaker database and finding the “closest” speaker, if any. A speech segment having an unknown speaker is initially assigned a general speaker label from the set of background models. The “unenrolled” segment is assigned a segment number and receives a cluster identifier assigned by the clustering system.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for automatically transcribing audio information from an audio-video source and concurrently identifying the speakers. The disclosed audio transcription and speaker classification system includes a speech recognition system, a speaker segmentation system and a speaker identification system. A common front-end processor computes feature vectors that are processed along parallel branches in a multi-threaded environment by the speech recognition system, speaker segmentation system and speaker identification system, for example, using a shared memory architecture that acts in a server-like manner to distribute the computed feature vectors to a channel associated with each parallel branch. The speech recognition system produces transcripts with time-alignments for each word in the transcript. The speaker segmentation system separates the speakers and identifies all possible frames where there is a segment boundary between non-homogeneous speech portions.

Abstract: A separator and stacker apparatus and method for separating a completed stack of web product from a stack of product being built thereafter. Preferred embodiments of the present invention utilize a stack building carriage having a forked or slotted floor cooperating with a load finger assembly to discharge the completed product stack from the stack building carriage. The load finger assembly preferably has a set of load fingers which mesh with the carriage floor so that when the load finger assembly is actuated, the load fingers pass substantially unobstructed through the stack building carriage. The load finger assembly and the stack building carriage can therefore pass through their motions independently of one another, permitting the stack building carriage to return to a stack building position without waiting for the load finger assembly to retract.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for retrieving audio information based on the audio content as well as the identity of the speaker. The results of content and speaker-based audio information retrieval methods are combined to provide references to audio information (and indirectly to video). A query search system retrieves information responsive to a textual query containing a text string (one or more key words), and the identity of a given speaker. An indexing system transcribes and indexes the audio information to create time-stamped content index file(s) and speaker index file(s). An audio retrieval system uses the generated content and speaker indexes to perform query-document matching based on the audio content and the speaker identity. Documents satisfying the user-specified content and speaker constraints are identified by comparing the start and end times of the document segments in both the content and speaker domains.

Abstract: A separator finger apparatus and method for insertion of a separation finger into and removal from a stream of web product. The unique motion provided by the elements making up the separation finger apparatus permits the separation finger to be mounted close to folding rolls (from which the web product issues) with reduced separation finger-to-folding roll interference. Specifically, the separation finger is manipulated to rotate and translate simultaneously as it is inserted into or removed from the stream of web product. The elements creating the separation finger motion are preferably a pivot arm mounted for rotation about a first axis and a translation member mounted for rotation about a second axis. The pivot arm is preferably rotatably coupled to the separation finger at a third axis. The separation finger is preferably coupled to the translation member for translational or sliding motion therealong.