Abstract: According to embodiments described herein, a method of processing a whole crude oil feed stream may include passing a whole crude oil feed stream into a fluid catalytic cracking unit and contacting the whole crude oil feed stream with an adsorbent material and a cracking catalyst. The adsorbent material may adsorb at least a portion of the sulfur of the whole crude oil feed stream and at least a portion of the whole crude oil feed stream may be catalytically cracked to produce coke disposed on the cracking catalyst. The method may further include passing the adsorbent material and the cracking catalyst to a regenerator, wherein the adsorbent material and the cracking catalyst contact an oxygen-containing gas at a temperature sufficient to remove at least a portion of the sulfur on the adsorbent material and combust at least a portion of the coke on the catalyst.

Abstract: A system for providing navigation information to a user in a region, the system including: a plurality of navigation stations disposed throughout the region and coupled to a communications network, each station having a wireless interface configured to communicate interactively with a mobile device carried by the user; wherein the system is configured to receive a destination at a selected navigation station using the wireless interface, to provide directions from the selected navigation station to the destination using the mobile device, and to track movement of the user throughout the region using interaction between the mobile device and a navigation station in range of the mobile device or interaction between the user and one of the navigation stations selected by the user.

Abstract: A device case for a portable electronic device is provided and includes mechanical protection for the device, an active thermal element incorporated within the mechanical protection and a controller to control an operation of the active thermal element, the controller being configured to limit power consumption of the active thermal element and to maintain a predefined internal device temperature.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a method and system for randomizing items within a storage device. A linkage module links a first linked item in the storage device to one or more second linked items in the storage device based on attributes of the items. The linking is performed without input from a user of the storage device. The second linked item has at least one attribute in common with the first linked item. A list generating module connected to the linkage module generates a list, wherein the list includes a random sequence of items. The generating of the list groups the first linked item and the second linked item(s) in the list such that there are no items between the first linked item and the second linked item(s) in the list.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for prerequisite-driven meeting scheduling are provided. The method includes defining prerequisites to be met prior to confirming scheduling of a meeting, and defining a threshold to confirm scheduling of the meeting based on prerequisites completed. The method also includes tracking the prerequisites completed prior to the meeting, the tracking performed by tracking logic of a scheduling tool executing on a host system. The method further includes confirming that the meeting will be held as scheduled in response to determining that the prerequisites completed meet the threshold. The method additionally includes rescheduling the meeting in response to determining that the prerequisites completed are below the threshold, the rescheduling performed by the scheduling tool executing on the host system.

Abstract: A system for providing navigation information to a user in a region, the system including: a plurality of navigation stations disposed throughout the region and coupled to a communications network, each station having a wireless interface configured to communicate interactively with a mobile device carried by the user; wherein the system is configured to receive a destination at a selected navigation station using the wireless interface, to provide directions from the selected navigation station to the destination using the mobile device, and to track movement of the user throughout the region using interaction between the mobile device and a navigation station in range of the mobile device or interaction between the user and one of the navigation stations selected by the user.