Abstract: An inlet duct, an induction system, and a system are disclosed for directing an inlet flow into an inlet compressor for use in an internal combustion engine. An example inlet duct may include one or more relief features disposed on an inner surface of the inlet duct. The one or more relief features may be made integral with the inlet duct. The one or more relief features may be disposed to protrude into the inlet flow to cause the inlet flow to swirl before reaching the inlet compressor.

Abstract: An inlet duct, an induction system, and a system are disclosed for directing an inlet flow into an inlet compressor for use in an internal combustion engine. An example inlet duct may include one or more relief features disposed on an inner surface of the inlet duct. The one or more relief features may be made integral with the inlet duct. The one or more relief features may be disposed to protrude into the inlet flow to cause the inlet flow to swirl before reaching the inlet compressor.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for authenticating a remote service to another service on behalf of a user. A user client authorizes a remote application client to perform one or more actions with a server on behalf of the user client. The user client provides one or more keys to a remote authentication service; receives an identifier of the remote application client, where the remote authentication client is remote from the server; and notifies the remote authentication service that the remote application client is authorized to obtain a response from the remote authentication service regarding a challenge from the server, where the response is based on at least one of the one or more keys stored by the remote authentication service on behalf of the user client.

Abstract: A system for managing security keys in a wireless network includes a manufacturer certification authority (MCA) for providing a signed digital MCA certificate for installation into a new network element (NE) at the manufacturer's facility prior to the new NE being installed and initialized in the network. The MCA also provides a source of trusted authority for authenticating legacy NEs in the network. The system includes a service provider certification authority for managing certificates and files used by the NEs to communicate securely within the network, a signing server for providing signing services to NEs for authentication, an element manager for providing security key and digital certificate management, and a management agent (MA) for providing proxy functionality of the EM security key services to NEs not directly connected to the EM.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for defending against a Denial of Service attack wherein a target victim of an attack has recognized the existence of an attack and identified its source. The carrier network which provides service to the victim automatically receives one or more IP (Internet Protocol) source/destination IP address pairs from the victim, and then limits (e.g., blocks) the transmission of packets from the identified source address to the identified destination address. The carrier may implement this filtering capability as a stand-alone box included in the network, or as a line card incorporated into otherwise conventional network elements already present in the network. The source/destination address pairs to be blocked may be advantageously communicated from the victim with use of security signatures and with use of redundant connections from the victim to the carrier network to ensure receipt even under congested network conditions.

Abstract: An inlet duct, an induction system, and a system are disclosed for directing an inlet flow into an inlet compressor for use in an internal combustion engine. An example inlet duct may include one or more relief features disposed on an inner surface of the inlet duct. The one or more relief features may be made integral with the inlet duct. The one or more relief features may be disposed to protrude into the inlet flow to cause the inlet flow to swirl before reaching the inlet compressor.

Abstract: A modular geothermal measurement system that provides for the pumping of a heat transfer fluid. The modular unit simplifies on-site installation time by reducing the number of distinct components to be installed and allows for the optional incorporating of additional heat sources or sinks, whereby the length of ground loop can be reduced, further reducing installation costs. The modular measurement system further allows for the growth of the system over time by adding modules, increasing the ground loop pumping power while providing energy transfer data specific to each thermal load. A controller having an energy control module provides energy control points. Such a system allows the beneficiary of a geothermal investment to be billed for their benefit, enabling the investor to capture the economic benefit of the investment.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for enhanced data storage in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Users subscribe to a P2P storage network that allows each user to store files on the storage network by swapping blocks of the user's files with blocks from storage of a peer, or peers, on the network. A user desiring to utilize the storage network for a certain data block must take back an equal, or substantially equal, storage block from another peer on the network thereby insuring no net change, or minimal net change, in total storage across the P2P storage network. In addition, the diffusion of data blocks throughout the storage network is employed whereby individual peers swap data blocks on a random basis thereby further enhancing the security of the swapped blocks from direct attacks.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for filtering received data packets. A hierarchical tree is maintained. The tree includes nodes organized in a plurality of levels. Each level above a root node of the tree has one or more of the nodes, with each of the one or more of the nodes corresponding to a particular value of a segment of an Internet Protocol (IP) address. The segment is the same for each node of a particular level of the tree. Each node at a particular level of the tree stores a number representative of the number of received packets having the same value for the segment of the IP address associated with the particular level. Some of the received data packets are filtered out based on the hierarchical tree.

Abstract: A method is described which provides for managing intelligent equipment that is deployed remotely. The capabilities of managing such distributed assets include both infrastructural capabilities to establish and maintain connection through a variety of wired and wireless mechanisms and application modules that provide distributed asset management capabilities.

Abstract: A method is described which provides for managing intelligent equipment that is deployed remotely. The capabilities of managing such distributed assets include both infrastructural capabilities to establish and maintain connection through a variety of wired and wireless mechanisms and application modules that provide distributed asset management capabilities.

Abstract: An apparatus for ion implantation using high perveance beams is disclosed. The apparatus includes a dipole magnet apparatus that provides an adjustment to a cross-beam magnetic dipole field in an ion implantation system. Introduction and control of the magnetic dipole field gradient in a low energy implantation system as disclosed herein gives a significant improvement to the magnet's acceptance and beam focusing which largely defines the effective transported beam current. The apparatus involves the use of ferromagnetic yokes of a prescribed shape and a portion of a secondary magnet coil following along the outside radius of a set of primary dipole magnet coils which define and delineate the primary magnetic field area and beam path. The current return path for the secondary magnet coil is via another portion of the secondary magnet coil that follows a path such that the field generated by the return path secondary magnet coil is orthogonal to the primary magnetic field.

Abstract: A process for selectively producing C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 olefins from a catalytically cracked or thermally cracked naphtha stream is disclosed. A mixture of the naphtha stream and a stream of steam is feed into a reaction zone where it is contacted with a catalyst containing from about 10 to 50 wt. % of a crystalline zeolite having an average pore diameter less than about 0.7 nanometers at reaction conditions which include temperatures from about 500 to 650.degree. C. and a hydrocarbon partial pressure from about 10 to 40 psia.

Abstract: A stand-up, book-like jewelry display device has a rectangular frame mounted upright on a horizontal bracket. Product panels that hold jewelry and graphics panels that depict the jewelry in use are rotatably mounted within the frame so that each panel swings about one of its edges, thereby giving the display the appearance of a book with pages to turn. Preferably, the product panels are alternated within the frame. In addition, the graphics panels are preferably narrower than the product panels such that, other than the graphics panel within the "leaf" being viewed, each graphics panel is obscured by the product panel above it so that it does not block from view any jewelry displayed on the product panel below it. In addition, the upright frame may be rotatably mounted to the horizontal bracket such that the frame can be rotated to allow the salesperson to change the displays without having to turn the bracket.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire and wheel rim assembly capable of being driven with the tire deflated comprising at least one circumferential band of magnetized rubber or plastics material on an interior surface of the assembly which contacts and is required to move relative to a further such surface when the tire is deflated and a magnetized liquid lubricant maintained in position by the band to facilitate relative movement between the contacting surfaces within the assembly when the assembly is driven with the tire deflated.

Abstract: A strip of plastics tags is formed by successively displacing portions of the strip from the plane of the strip along longitudinally spaced lines transverse of the strip, and, before contact between said displaced portions and the remainder of the strip is lost, replacing said portions in the plane of the strip.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying to the neck of a bagged package a closure comprising stiff resilient sheet plastics material having therein a bag-neck retaining aperture communicating with an edge of the closure by means of a narrow slit, which apparatus comprises means for gathering and holding the neck of the bagged package, means for locating the closure with the slit aligned with the gathered neck, and means for effecting relative movement between the gathered neck and the closure such as to force the gathered neck through the slit and into the aperture. The holding means is a stop member which prevents advance of the bag neck until a sensor detects passage of the trailing end of the bag neck, whereupon the stop member is released and a claw advances the gathered bag neck into the closure.