Abstract: A method of facilitating wireless communications between a load controller device and a network component is described. The method can include the step of transitioning the load controller device from a peer-to-peer state in which the load controller device can receive initialization information to a provisioned state in which the load controller device connects to the network component using the initialization information. If there is a disruption in the connection between the load controller device and the network component in the provisioned state, the load controller device can be forced back to the peer-to-peer state from the provisioned state to enable the load controller device to receive new initialization information for reestablishment of the connection between the load controller device and the network component or for establishment of another connection between the load controller device and a different network component.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rubber composition which contains an aminoalcohol as a tack retention additive. The invention also relates to a tire having a component of such rubber composition. The invention is further directed to a method of preparing a tire having tire tread ends or other rubber components joined together without an adhesive.

Abstract: A virtual architecture for enabling direct point-to-point communications between any processes on a network cloud utilizes a process record in which information relevant to the process is stored and propagated through a parent/child hierarchy of connection service processes and information service processes. Process records and information relating to processes are propagated throughout private clouds, public clouds and interconnecting global services to facilitate both activity based network routing and load based network routing without the use of predetermined network routing mechanisms.

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for synchronized presentation of analog and digital data by applying a common synchronization scheme to both types of data. Digital data is "streamed" by transferring the data in blocks from a source to a series of memory buffers, where it accumulates for subsequent transfer to an output device driver. The control module responsible for data streaming periodically reports a temporal location within the presentation represented by the data. A supervisory module designates one of the control modules a "master", and periodically compares the values reported by the various other control modules against that reported by the master. If a comparison exceeds a threshold tolerance value associated with each control module, a sync pulse is delivered to that control module, causing it to correct the synchronization mismatch.