Abstract: A method may include obtaining first audio data originating at a first device during a communication session between the first device and a second device. The method may also include obtaining an availability of revoiced transcription units in a transcription system and in response to establishment of the communication session, selecting, based on the availability of revoiced transcription units, a revoiced transcription unit instead of a non-revoiced transcription unit to generate a transcript of the first audio data. The method may also include obtaining revoiced audio generated by a revoicing of the first audio data by a captioning assistant and generating a transcription of the revoiced audio using an automatic speech recognition system. The method may further include in response to selecting the revoiced transcription unit, directing the transcription of the revoiced audio to the second device as the transcript of the first audio data.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for identifying a user. The method includes the steps of determining at least one biometric parameter associated with a user at a terminal, determining a plurality of active users associated with the terminal and comparing the determined biometric parameter with corresponding biometric parameters of the active users.

Abstract: Various examples for application management detection are described. In one example, depending upon whether an installation token includes a unique token value, a client device can determine whether an application is managed or unmanaged. Additionally, the client device can determine whether the application is managed or unmanaged based on whether a keychain installation token includes a unique token value, a value of a keychain installation token, and a value of a launched flag for the application. Using the concepts described herein, an unmanaged application can proceed to execute with limited functionality, present a notification that it should be reinstalled by the management service, stop executing, or take other measures.

Abstract: A progesterone impregnated vaginal ring/pessary includes a circumferential outer ring composed of a progesterone impregnated biomaterial, wherein the outer ring has a substantially circular configuration while lying flat with an outer diameter of 60 mm to 70 mm and a thickness of approximately 5 mm. The vaginal ring/pessary also includes a transparent membrane extending along an interior space defined by the outer ring. The transparent membrane is composed of a silicone polymer, has a thickness of 1 mm to 3 mm, and includes a plurality of apertures, which are 4 mm to 5 mm in diameter, circumferentially spaced about a perimeter of the transparent membrane.

Abstract: A mobile wireless communications device may include a device housing, and mobile wireless communications device circuitry carried by the device housing. The device may also include a removable electrical power supply module coupled to the mobile wireless communications device circuitry. The removable electrical power supply module may include a module housing, and within the module housing, a battery cell, a DC-to-DC converter coupled to the battery cell, and an output inductor coupled to the DC-to-DC converter. The removable electrical power supply module may also include, within the module housing, a spark suppression circuit coupled to the output inductor, and an output voltage clamp circuit coupled to the output inductor. The removable electrical power supply module may further include a pair of output terminals carried by the module housing and coupled to the output voltage clamp circuit.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for identifying a user. The method includes the steps of determining at least one biometric parameter associated with a user at a terminal, determining a plurality of active users associated with the terminal and comparing the determined biometric parameter with corresponding biometric parameters of the active users.

Abstract: An intrinsically safe portable radio device (100) having a portable radio device housing (120). A first radio section (201) is an intrinsically safe circuit is (ISC) disposed within the housing and arranged to perform at least one function to facilitate operation of the portable radio device. A second radio section (202) ISC is disposed within the housing and arranged to perform at least a second function to facilitate operation of the portable radio device. Each of the first and second ISCs independently satisfy a defined standard for intrinsically safe devices.

Abstract: An intrinsically safe portable radio device (100) having a portable radio device housing (120). A first radio section (201) is an intrinsically safe circuit is (ISC) disposed within the housing and arranged to perform at least one function to facilitate operation of the portable radio device. A second radio section (202) ISC is disposed within the housing and arranged to perform at least a second function to facilitate operation of the portable radio device. Each of the first and second ISCs independently satisfy a defined standard for intrinsically safe devices.

Abstract: A mobile wireless communications device may include a device housing, and mobile wireless communications device circuitry carried by the device housing. The device may also include a removable electrical power supply module coupled to the mobile wireless communications device circuitry. The removable electrical power supply module may include a module housing, and within the module housing, a battery cell, a DC-to-DC converter coupled to the battery cell, and an output inductor coupled to the DC-to-DC converter. The removable electrical power supply module may also include, within the module housing, a spark suppression circuit coupled to the output inductor, and an output voltage clamp circuit coupled to the output inductor. The removable electrical power supply module may further include a pair of output terminals carried by the module housing and coupled to the output voltage clamp circuit.

Abstract: An automated teller machine (ATM) is adapted to receive a text message from a mobile telecommunications device provided through an RF communications system. The ATM then interprets the received text message, and provides information or a service in response to the received text message.

Abstract: A system and method for providing information to a user of a self-service terminal such as an automated teller machine by offering them the opportunity to receive information via a communication channel that is separate from the ATM network. In the event that this option is selected, an electronic or telecommunications address of a device, such as a mobile telephone, associated with the user is identified and the requested information is sent to that address, together with advertising material.

Abstract: An automated teller machine (10) comprising means (30) for generating and presenting an avatar (36) to the user, wherein characteristics, such as facial expressions, of the avatar (36) are dependent on inputs from users and a customer relationship management system.

Abstract: A method of providing immediate assistance to a user of a targeted messaging system is described. The method involves: identifying a message appropriate for presenting to the user (step 220); presenting the message to the user (step 222); offering to summon a human agent knowledgeable about products associated with the message (step 222); and summoning an agent to speak with the user in response to the user accepting the offer (step 224). The method may use a campaign server to supply the appropriate message. A self-service terminal, such as an ATM, may be used to present the message.

Abstract: Structural elements of biocompatible material are interlocked with one another in an array to repair, augment or replace natural bone, the structural elements each including a hub having a center, and a plurality of posts projecting from the hub and spaced from one another to establish inter-post spaces between adjacent posts, each post having a root at the hub, an opposite tip, a length, and a transverse cross-sectional configuration, the number of posts and the relative length, cross-sectional configuration, and location of adjacent posts in each structural element being such that the inter-post spaces of one structural element will receive the posts of adjacent structural elements in the array to promote interlocking of adjacent structural elements in a relatively tightly meshed relationship for resisting shear stress in essentially all directions within the array.

Abstract: Invented are methods and an apparatus for faradic stimulation of osteogenesis by control of electrochemical reactions through maintenance of a stimulus between a cathode and anode yielding only beneficial electrochemical reactions at the cathode, the site of desired osteogenesis, while preventing any detrimental reaction at the same. Said methods and apparatus maintain a stimulus yielding the maximum acceptable level of oxygen consumption and pH elevation at the cathode, either with or without the formation of hydrogen peroxide as only an intermediate chemical species, while preventing the initiation of hydrogen gas evolution at the same such that the stimulus results in depression of oxygen tension plus elevation of pH, environmental effects that favor osteogenesis, and prevents a reaction resulting in elevation of pH plus hydrogen gas evolution, the latter effect being detrimental to the same.

Abstract: Mechanical testing apparatus and methods are disclosed for providing closed-loop dynamic mechanical testing under small loads. The testing machine includes an electrically-driven actuator and light weight load transducer. The load transducer converts the applied load into a voltage feedback signal, which is then fed into a closed-loop control means for regulating the applied load in response, in part, to the voltage feedback signal. The testing machine is extremely sensitive and is capable of testing samples with an applied load force of less than about 20 grams.

Abstract: Disclosed is an implantable bone growth stimulator which needs no internal battery or large buffer capacitor. A receiving coil in a preferred embodiment, a ferrite core coil, receives RF energy from a transmitter external to the patient. The received RF energy is voltage doubled and rectified and provided to a constant current generator which in turn supplies a constant amount of current between implanted cathodes and an implanted anode. In preferred embodiments, the receiving coil, power supply, and cathodes are one unit which is located in place on an internal fixation device attached to the bones near the fracture site. In another embodiment, only the cathodes are located in the vicinity of the fracture site and the receiver coil voltage multiplier circuit and constant current source are located remote from the fracture site.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for maintaining the potential between a cathode and a reference electrode substantially constant during electrically-induced osteogenesis. Two separate embodiments of electronic circuits are provided which will generate a D.C. current to flow between a cathode and anode while maintaining the potential between the cathode and the reference electrode substantially constant within the range of 0.1 to 1.26 Volts and preferably within the range of 1.0 to 1.26 Volts. Improvement in the amount of new bone grown over prior art bone growth stimulators is on the order of 200 to 300 percent. The electronic circuits provide the substantially constant cathodic potential over a wide range of load impedances between the anode and cathode. The disclosure is applicable not only to improving osteogenesis in bone fracture sites, but also to applications in which it is desirable to provide bone accretion for any reason.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved bone-piercing cathode for providing electrical stimulation of osteogenesis at a plurality of locations. A conventional bone-piercing cathode is modified by adding a number of "ports" extending through the insulative covering to expose the cathode permitting a flow of osteogenesis stimulating current therethrough. In a preferred embodiment, seven ports are spaced three on one side and four on the other of a conventional bone-piercing cathode which is inserted into the fracture site. Sufficient current is supplied to the cathode in order to insure that each port as well as the insulation-bare wire junction can supply 20 microamperes of osteogenesis stimulating current into the body tissues. This permits bone growth stimulation adjacent a plurality of sites on the cathode.