Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and program products for determining where to position received transitory audio within a experiential data stream so as to provide minimal disruption to the experiential data stream.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and program products that create a shared social space that enables a local audience member and a remote audience member to simultaneously experience a recorded experiential data stream.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and program products that enable a presentation device to automatically accommodate conversations in a social space.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and program products that synchronize the presentation of an experiential data stream at a local device with the presentation of a similar experiential data stream using a playback position received over a control link.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and program products that enable an audience member of a local device to navigate, by activation of user selectable controls, through an experiential data stream presented on the local device.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and program products that provide content that is structured to be able to be presented in conjunction with at least one prerecorded portion of an experiential data stream.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and program products that present commentary audio in conjunction with an experiential data stream by detecting proximity of a playback position to an audio trigger position associated with a commentary audio clip and presenting the commentary audio clip accordingly.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and program products that determine whether a first and second experiential data stream are sufficiently similar to be used to establish a shared social space.

Abstract: A method for producing higher purity zinc oxide by thermal treatment of the preprocessed material for a defined period of time.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention is a computer controlled method for use with a communication system. The method includes a step of receiving a plurality of communications, where each one of the plurality of communications is from one of a plurality of communication sources; includes a step of mixing (that is responsive to a plurality of floor controls) the plurality of communications for a plurality of outputs associated with plurality of communication sources; and includes a step of analyzing, for a plurality of users associated with the plurality of communication sources, one or more conversational characteristics of two or more of the plurality of users. The method also includes a step of automatically adjusting the plurality of floor controls responsive to the step of analyzing. Other embodiments include systems and devices that use the method as well as program products that cause a computer to execute the method.

Abstract: The present invention involves the early diagnosis of cancerous or precancerous conditions in the gastrointestinal tract by detection of a backleak of signature proteins or carbohydrates in a biological sample obtained from the gastrointestinal tract.

Abstract: A process for recovering iron from iron-bearing materials including steel mill waste and iron-bearing ores. The process includes the steps of providing a mixture of iron-bearing materials having iron oxides therein and carbonaceous material. Blending with the mixture an organic binder. The mixture is then agglomerated to form green compacts. The green compacts are then loaded into a preheated rotary hearth furnace void of compacts to form a layer of compacts no more than about two compacts high. The green compacts are heated for about 5-12 minutes at a temperature of between about 2200-2500° F. to reduce the compacts and evolve undesirable oxides from the compacts. The reduced compacts are then discharged from the rotary hearth furnace whereupon they are soaked to provide additional time for reaction to achieve 99% or more reduction of the iron oxides. The metallized iron compacts may then be cooled or transported hot to a steel making operation.

Abstract: Coring samples can be taken in highly fractured rock formations without physical disturbance of the coring sample as it is cut and without jamming the core within the core barrel by using a rotating coring bit characterized by a pilot portion. The pilot portion extends the inner gage to form a longitudinally extending cylindrical surface. The nose of the pilot portion is characterized by a crowned surface wherein cylindrical polycrystalline diamond (PCD) cutting elements are axially disposed and longitudinally extending from the crowned surface. The width of the crowned surface which forms the nose of the pilot portion, is substantially less than the distance between the inner and outer gages of the coring bit. The pilot portion joins a flank portion of the bit through a cylindrical and longitudinally extending pilot gage.