Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include a method for administering devices. Typical embodiments include creating a user metric vector comprising a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a user metric space comprising a plurality of metric ranges, receiving, from a user, a value for a user preference for a device, and determining whether a user metric vector is outside the user metric space. If the user metric vector is outside a user metric space, such embodiments include identifying an action, executing the action, and setting the value of a user preference for a device in dependence upon the value received from the user.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include a method for administering devices. Such exemplary methods include receiving a plurality of user metrics, creating a relational metric in dependence upon the plurality of user metrics, creating a user metric vector comprising at least one user metric and at least one relational metric, creating a user metric space comprising a plurality of metric ranges, and determining whether the user metric vector is outside the user metric space. If the user metric vector is outside a user metric space, exemplary embodiments include identifying an action, and executing the action.

Abstract: Methods for administering devices including creating a user metric vector including a plurality of disparate user metrics, selecting a generic metric space including a plurality of generic metric ranges, and determining whether the user metric vector is outside the generic metric space. Embodiments include identifying an action and executing the identified action, if the user metric vector is outside the generic metric space.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include methods for administering devices. Such exemplary embodiments include creating a user metric vector comprising a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a user metric space comprising a plurality of metric ranges, and determining whether the user metric vector is outside the user metric space. If the user metric vector is outside a user metric space, such embodiments include creating in dependence upon the user metric vector, a dynamic action list, identifying at least one action in the dynamic action list, executing the action, and determining whether a value of a user metric of the user metric vector that was outside a metric range of the user metric space before executing the action is outside the metric range after executing the action.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include a method for administering devices. Such exemplary embodiments include receiving a domain state object, identifying an action in dependence upon the domain state object, and executing the action. In many exemplary embodiments, receiving a domain state object includes receiving a signal to download the domain state object from a mobile sensor, and downloading the domain state object from the mobile sensor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a detection system and a detection method for the detection and tracking of optical codes on objects which are transported along a monitored zone, comprising a plurality of optoelectronic sensors to read the codes and to generate corresponding reading data and comprising at least two data buses, each having its own associated bus control unit, wherein each of the plurality of sensors is connected both to the one and to the other of the two data buses and wherein the one of the two data buses with the associated bus control unit, on the one hand, and the other data bus with the associated bus control unit, on the other hand, are divided into a primary branch and a secondary branch which is subordinate to the primary branch.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus of acquiring and processing seismic data. One or more controllers are each coupled to seismic sensors and to each other to form a network of data acquisition units. A main controller is coupled to a crossline unit via a cable comprising a synchronizing conductor and one or more power/data conductors. Commands and data are packaged such that multiple routings are possible without affecting final calculations. Each crossline unit is capable of accepting a fiber optic input, a wire input or a combination.