Abstract: Systems and methods are described for serving binary short message service (SMS) content to multiple mobile devices that use different wireless networks to receive data. One implementation involves a method for serving binary SMS content to the subscribers of a telematics service provider (TSP) on multiple mobile devices that are provisioned with multiple wireless networks. The method involves receiving a binary SMS at a receiving module of an external short message entity (ESME), translating the SMS into a protocol data unit (PDU), and routing the PDU to an SMS gateway producing application. The PDU is directed to a virtual serial port, which is created by the gateway producing application and mapped to a physical serial port at a terminal server. The PDU is sent from the terminal server to a data modem that is provisioned with a wireless carrier, and the data modem is instructed to transmit the SMS to a mobile device.

Abstract: A method and system for providing wireless mobile device information from a vehicle to a call center. The method includes the steps of (a) detecting the presence of a personal mobile device at the vehicle, (b) receiving at a vehicle interface module a mobile device identifier from the personal mobile device, and (c) sending the mobile device identifier from the vehicle interface module to a call center via the mobile device. The mobile device identifier received at the call center can be used for various purposes such as to provide a callback number in the event of a dropped call, or to validate that services are authorized for the vehicle.

Abstract: Blind polarization demultiplexing algorithms based on complex independent component analysis (ICA) by negentropy maximization for quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) coherent optical systems are disclosed. The polarization demultiplexing is achieved by maximizing the signal's non-Gaussianity measured by the information theoretic quantity of negentropy. An adaptive gradient optimization algorithm and a Quasi-Newton algorithm with accelerated convergence are employed to maximize the negentropy. Certain approximate nonlinear functions can be substitutes for the negentropy which is strictly derived from the probability density function (PDF) of the received noisy QAM signal with phase noise, and this reduces the computational complexity.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for serving binary short message service (SMS) content to multiple mobile devices that use different wireless networks to receive data. One implementation involves a method for serving binary SMS content to the subscribers of a telematics service provider (TSP) on multiple mobile devices that are provisioned with multiple wireless networks. The method involves receiving a binary SMS at a receiving module of an external short message entity (ESME), translating the SMS into a protocol data unit (PDU), and routing the PDU to an SMS gateway producing application. The PDU is directed to a virtual serial port, which is created by the gateway producing application and mapped to a physical serial port at a terminal server. The PDU is sent from the terminal server to a data modem that is provisioned with a wireless carrier, and the data modem is instructed to transmit the SMS to a mobile device.

Abstract: A system and method for sending binary data via a short message service (SMS) over a wireless communication system. The method provides the capability to send and receive binary data to a vehicle telematics unit using a text SMS message. The binary data is converted to encoded text according to an encoding scheme supported by a wireless communication system. Then, the encoded text is sent as an SMS message over the wireless communication system. Once, the SMS message containing the encoded text is received at its destination, it is converted back to binary data.

Abstract: A method and system for providing wireless mobile device information from a vehicle to a call center. The method includes the steps of (a) detecting the presence of a personal mobile device at the vehicle, (b) receiving at a vehicle interface module a mobile device identifier from the personal mobile device, and (c) sending the mobile device identifier from the vehicle interface module to a call center via the mobile device. The mobile device identifier received at the call center can be used for various purposes such as to provide a callback number in the event of a dropped call, or to validate that services are authorize for the vehicle.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel calcium-independent cytosolic phospholipase A2/B enzyme, polynucleotides encoding such enzyme and methods for screening unknown compounds for anti-inflammatory activity mediated by the arachidonic acid cascade.

Abstract: The present disclosure encompasses methods of diagnosing the presence of a cancer, and particularly a cancer of prostate or breast tissue, in a human subject, predicting the outcome or severity of the disease and methods of reversing the prostate cell transformation based on the presence or absence in the human subject of a dinucleotide (TT) deletion in the gene encoding the U50 snoRNA. Provided, therefore, are methods of identifying a genetic marker of a human subject indicating a cancerous tissue in the human subject, embodiments of the methods comprising: determining from an isolated nucleic acid sample the genotype of the human subject with respect to a locus encoding a snoRNA U50, where a mutation within the nucleotide sequence encoding a snoRNA U50, when compared with a wild-type nucleotide sequence encoding a snoRNA U50, identifies in the human subject a genetic marker associated with a cancer in the human subject.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for positioning a mobile station and a repeater thereof. Said method comprises: the mobile communication network, when receiving a positioning request from a mobile station, instructing repeaters to send auxiliary positioning signals, and the mobile station performs measurement according to the received auxiliary positioning signals sent from the repeaters and downlink signals sent from the base station, and then estimating the position of the mobile station according to the measurement results, and thereby implementing the positioning of the mobile station. Said repeater is implemented through adding an auxiliary positioning unit in the downlink processing channel of a traditional repeater; said auxiliary positioning unit comprises a communication module, a frame timing recovery module, a timing control module, and a pilot modulating module.

Abstract: A detailed identification method for articles has an image-taking step and a comparison step. The image-taking step includes acts of using a portable identification device having a close-up lens and a screen to take a detailed image of an undistinguishable article and displaying the detailed image on the screen with an enlarged size. The comparison step includes acts of recalling a detailed image of a legal article from a database and displaying the detailed image on the screen of the portable identification device with an enlarged size. The two detailed images are displayed on the same screen so a user can clearly compare the detailed images to judge whether the undistinguishable article is a fake. The detailed identification method for articles has mobility and can be conveniently and extensively used.

Abstract: An apparatus capable of moving air shutter slats up and down includes a rectangular frame and a plurality of slats. The frame has a left slot and a right slot on a left inner side and a right inner side. The left slot and the right slot have respectively at least one latch notch on a corresponding horizontal position. The slats are fastened by a strap on the front side and rear side, and have respectively a stub shaft on the left end and the right end that are inserted into the left slot and right slot for turning therein. The slats can be moved up and down in the frame, and the stub shaft can be wedged in the latch notch to anchor the slats.

Abstract: A Venetian window with movable elevating blinds includes a window frame, a vertical pivotal plate separately installed on internal left and right sides of the window frame, a vertical groove disposed at the pivotal plate for engaging a pivotal portion of a plurality of blinds and moving the blinds vertically up and down, a pivotal hole separately disposed at the top of two side frames and pivotally coupled to the pivotal portion on both sides of the blinds, two surrounding strips for fixing and maintaining each blind in a balanced position and driving each blind to rotate synchronously, a cap disposed at an end of the two pulling strings for passing each blind and fixing it at the bottom of the blind, and a handling knob disposed at another end of a control wheel module, such that the pulling string can be operated to pull the blinds up or down.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a slat-pulling device for a Venetian blind, which comprises a rectangular frame, wherein multiple slats are arranged from top to bottom inside the frame; and the left and right ends of each slat are respectively pivotally coupled to the frame so that each slat can rotate freely. The improvement of the present invention is: the left and right sides of the slats are respectively linked to annular fabric ribbons; and rotating an arbitrary slat can synchronically drive all the slats to tilt, shut, or open.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel calcium-independent cytosolic phospholipase A2/B enzyme, polynucleotides encoding such enzyme and methods for screening unknown compounds for anti-inflammatory activity mediated by the arachidonic acid cascade.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel calcium-independent cytosolic phospholipase A2/B enzyme, polynucleotides encoding such enzyme, antibodies to such enzyme, and methods for screening unknown compounds for anti-inflammatory activity mediated by the arachidonic acid cascade.

Abstract: The invention discloses a method of locating and measuring a mobile station, which relates with the radio locating technique in mobile communication field. Comparing with the conventional radio locating technique, the method improves the first path determination method of a neighbor base station downlink signal as follows: with geometrical relationship such as the distance between a MS to the reference base station and the distance between a neighbor base station to the reference base station, an effective range of the downlink signal first path of the neighbor base station can be calculated; the effective range is an effective search window that is shorter than the original large search window, and the first path determination of the neighbor base station downlink signal is made within the effective search window. The invention raises the first path determination accuracy of a neighbor base station downlink signal, so the mobile station locating accuracy is raised too.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for positioning a mobile station and a repeater thereof. Said method comprises: the mobile communication network, when receiving a positioning request from a mobile station, instructing repeaters to send auxiliary positioning signals, and the mobile station performs measurement according to the received auxiliary positioning signals sent from the repeaters and downlink signals sent from the base station, and then estimating the position of the mobile station according to the measurement results, and thereby implementing the positioning of the mobile station. Said repeater is implemented through adding an auxiliary positioning unit in the downlink processing channel of a traditional repeater; said auxiliary positioning unit comprises a communication module, a frame timing recovery module, a timing control module, and a pilot modulating module.

Abstract: The isolation and characterization of a metastasis tumor suppressor gene KAI1 is disclosed and diagnostic methods and gene therapy approaches utilizing reagents derived from the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of the KAI1 gene are provided.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel calcium-independent cytosolic phospholipase A2/B enzyme, polynucleotides encoding such enzyme antibodies to such enzyme, and methods for screening unknown compounds for anti-inflammatory activity mediated by the arachidonic acid cascade.