Abstract: The systems and methods for deploying VoIP telecommunication services. The systems include at least one service package that has a set of instructions for carrying out, hosting and/or deploying a VoIP telecommunications service. The system also includes a runtime environment, or process, that is capable of processing instructions stored in the one or more service packages for the purpose of carrying out the VoIP service deployment. The system further includes one or more adapters, each of which is capable of interfacing the system to the external network environment through which the communication service will be deployed. Optionally and preferably the system may also include an integrated development environment for allowing a user to develop a service package which can be executed within the runtime environment for directing the external network, through the adapters, to implement the user developed service.

Abstract: A data collection system includes a plurality of node host computers. Each node host computer has a node manager, at least one processing node and a data manager. The data manager delivers network records between processing nodes. The processing nodes include an input queue and an output queue. In some embodiments at least one of the nodes has a plurality of output queues. The processing nodes are arranged in configurable chains of processing nodes. The chains are disposed across one or more of the plurality of host computers to process network records. The at least one processing node having the plurality of output queues can couple records from the plurality of output queues to input queues of corresponding processing nodes, based on a selected distribution method and/or selected content of records. The system can include an administrative client that displays a graphical user interface and an administrative server communicating with the node host computers and the administrative client.

Abstract: A solid solder element (106), such as a solder perform, is attached onto a contact surface of interest (102), such as a heat sink using and adhesive material (104). Placement of the adhesive material overcomes alignment and registration issues that may interfere with good contact to components (108), such as transistors, during the manufacturing/assembly process, such as a reflow process.

Abstract: The invention provides systems, including apparatus, methods, and kits, for the microfluidic manipulation and/or detection of particles, such as cells and/or beads. The invention provides systems, including apparatus, methods, and kits, for the microfluidic manipulation and/or analysis of particles, such as cells, viruses, organelles, beads, and/or vesicles. The invention also provides microfluidic mechanisms for carrying out these manipulations and analyses. These mechanisms may enable controlled input, movement/positioning, retention/localization, treatment, measurement, release, and/or output of particles. Furthermore, these mechanisms may be combined in any suitable order and/or employed for any suitable number of times within a system.

Abstract: Methods for deploying improved telecommunication services. The methods comprise the steps of providing one or more existing service packages, each being a set of instruction for deploying a telecommunications service. In a further step the method provides a platform runtime environment that has a work flow engine and a pipeline engine that is capable of interpreting the service package to carry out the instructions therein. In an additional step, the method provides a user interface for configuring the one or more service packages. The user interface is configured to receive user input by offering a plurality of functional elements that may be manipulated by a user to describe one or more operations of the service packages, each functional element having one or more properties that may be controlled by the user. In a further step the method configures one or more features of the service package in response to the user input to alter the telecommunications service.

Abstract: A system for collecting and aggregating data from network entities for a data consuming application is described. The system includes a data collector layer to receive network flow information from the network entities and to produce records based on the information. The system also includes a flow aggregation layer fed from the data collection layer and coupled to a storage device. The flow aggregation layer receiving records produced by the data collector layer and aggregates received records. The system can also include an equipment interface layer coupled to the data collector layer and a distribution layer to obtain selected information stored in the storage device and to distribute the select information to a requesting, data consuming application.

Abstract: The invention provides systems, including apparatus, methods, and kits, for the microfluidic manipulation and/or detection of particles, such as cells and/or beads. The invention provides systems, including apparatus, methods, and kits, for the microfluidic manipulation and/or analysis of particles, such as cells, viruses, organelles, beads, and/or vesicles. The invention also provides microfluidic mechanisms for carrying out these manipulations and analyses. These mechanisms may enable controlled input, movement/positioning, retention/localization, treatment, measurement, release, and/or output of particles. Furthermore, these mechanisms may be combined in any suitable order and/or employed for any suitable number of times within a system.

Abstract: The model adaptation system of the present invention is a speaker verification system that embodies the capability to adapt models learned during the enrollment component to track aging of a user's voice. The system has the advantage of only requiring a single enrollment for the user. The model adaptation system and methods can be applied to several types of speaker recognition models including neural tree networks (NTN), Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs), and dynamic time warping (DTW) or to multiple models (i.e., combinations of NTNs, GMMs and DTW). Moreover, the present invention can be applied to text-dependent or text-independent systems.

Abstract: Fault management and recovery in a distributed network accounting system includes classifying nodes in the system according to complexity of processing in the node. For nodes of relatively low processing complexity, context check-pointing a state of processing in the nodes to permit automatic recovery of the node to the nodes' most recent processing context checkpoint; and for nodes of relatively high complexity, producing a directed graph of the programmable nodes that controls a flow of data and control of processing through the system, and producing a dynamic modification of the directed graph to automatically fail-over to redundant back-up nodes based on thresholds established for the component hosts.

Abstract: A method of load shedding wherein a series of load shedding thermostats are mounted in building serviced by a utility. Each thermostat contains an addressable processor arranged to receive different code inputs form the utility. Heat loss and load characteristics for buildings are calculated from measured indoor and outdoor temperature movements along with the equipment's duty cycle for a given period of time and the required setback temperature for a given coded input is set into the thermostat based upon heat loss and load characteristics of the building.

Abstract: A system for collecting and aggregating data from network entities for a data consuming application is described. The system includes a data collector layer to receive network flow information from the network entities and to produce records based on the information. The system also includes a flow aggregation layer fed from the data collection layer and coupled to a storage device. The flow aggregation layer receiving records produced by the data collector layer and aggregates received records. The system can also include an equipment interface layer coupled to the data collector layer and a distribution layer to obtain selected information stored in the storage device and to distribute the select information to a requesting, data consuming application.

Abstract: Fault management and recovery in a distributed network accounting system includes classifying nodes in the system according to complexity of processing in the node. For nodes of relatively low processing complexity, context check-pointing a state of processing in the nodes to permit automatic recovery of the node to the nodes' most recent processing context checkpoint; and for nodes of relatively high complexity, producing a directed graph of the programmable nodes that controls a flow of data and control of processing through the system, and producing a dynamic modification of the directed graph to automatically fail-over to redundant back-up nodes based on thresholds established for the component hosts.

Abstract: A method of maintaining a website by parsing a source file to locate editable fields delimited by “edit” tags. The contents of these fields are presented to a user, who is generally remote from the web server hosting the page. The user updates the field contents and the program generates a new source file including the edited contents which overwrites the original file.

Abstract: A system for collecting and aggregating data from network entities for a data consuming application is described. The system includes a data collector layer to receive network flow information from the network entities and to produce records based on the information. The system also includes a flow aggregation layer fed from the data collection layer and coupled to a storage device. The flow aggregation layer receiving records produced by the data collector layer and aggregates received records. The system can also include an equipment interface layer coupled to the data collector layer and a distribution layer to obtain selected information stored in the storage device and to distribute the select information to a requesting, data consuming application.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pattern recognition system which uses data fusion to combine data from a plurality of extracted features and a plurality of classifiers. Speaker patterns can be accurately verified with the combination of discriminant based and distortion based classifiers. A novel approach using a training set of a "leave one out" data can be used for training the system with a reduced data set. Extracted features can be improved with a pole filtered method for reducing channel effects and an affine transformation for improving the correlation between training and testing data.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for improved mobile radio telecommunications employs the transmission of a pilot reference signal within the coherence band of the modulated carrier wave. The receiver in this system uses instantaneous phase estimation techniques of the pilot and carrier received waveforms to provide immunity from phase distortion introduced by the channel.