Abstract: Sign-up and provisioning in online reputation management with reputation shaping are provided. A service such as a reputation management service authenticates a reputation manager to allow the reputation manager to configure a reputation profile to shape the online reputation associated with a reputation owner. Digital assets associated with the reputation and hosted by external resources are discovered. The digital assets and the reputation profile are analyzed to match suggested actions with operations to shape the online reputation. The digital assets, the reputation profile, and the suggested actions are transmitted to the reputation manager to prompt the reputation manager to customize the reputation profile and the suggested actions to shape the online reputation.

Abstract: Ongoing management for pre-planned handling of digital presence is provided. A service such as a management service monitors continuously monitors digital assets of an asset owner hosted at external resources. A change to the digital assets retrieved from the external resources is analyzed in response to a detection of the change. The change is processed to reclassify the digital assets into asset categories. The digital assets and the asset categories are matched to suggested actions and suggested trigger events. The suggested actions include operations to dispose of the digital assets in case of an incapacitation of the asset owner. A notification is transmitted to an asset manager to prompt the asset manager to review the updates to the digital assets, the asset categories, the suggested actions, and the suggested trigger events.

Abstract: Ongoing management of a shaped online reputation is provided. A service such as a reputation management service monitors digital assets of a reputation owner hosted by external resources based on a reputation profile. The reputation profile is configured by a reputation manager. A change to the digital assets is detected. In response, the change and the reputation profile are processed to match suggested actions with operations to shape the online profile. A description of the suggested actions, the reputation profile, and the change are transmitted to the reputation manager to prompt the reputation manager to customize or confirm the reputation profile and the suggested actions. The suggested actions are executed to shape the online reputation in response to a confirmation to the transmission by the reputation manager.

Abstract: Responsive actions and strategies in online reputation management with reputation shaping are provided. A service, such as a reputation management service, discovers digital assets associated with a reputation owner hosted by external resources. The reputation management service receives a reputation profile configured by a reputation manager. The reputation profile includes suggestions to shape the online reputation of the reputation owner and credentials to accounts of the reputation owner hosted by the external resources. The digital assets and the reputation profile is matched to the suggested actions. The suggested actions is transmitted to the reputation manager to prompt the reputation manager to select and customize the suggested actions. The reputation management service receives a subset of the suggested actions and performs the subset of the suggested actions to shape the online reputation of the reputation owner.

Abstract: Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide systems and methods for providing one or more versions of an application to one or more subsets of users based on measured performance of the one or more versions of the application. A method may include providing a first version of an application to a first subset of users of the application. Next, performance of the first version of the application may be measured and a second subset of users of the application may be selected based on the performance of the first version of the application. As a result, a second version of the application may be provided to the second subset of users of the application.

Abstract: Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide systems and methods for providing one or more versions of an application to one or more subsets of users based on measured performance of the one or more versions of the application. A method may include providing a first version of an application to a first subset of users of the application. Next, performance of the first version of the application may be measured and a second subset of users of the application may be selected based on the performance of the first version of the application. As a result, a second version of the application may be provided to the second subset of users of the application.

Abstract: Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide systems and methods for providing one or more versions of an application to one or more subsets of users based on measured performance of the one or more versions of the application. A method may include providing a first version of an application to a first subset of users of the application. Next, performance of the first version of the application may be measured and a second subset of users of the application may be selected based on the performance of the first version of the application. As a result, a second version of the application may be provided to the second subset of users of the application.

Abstract: A waveform analysis of speech is disclosed. Embodiments include methods for analyzing captured sounds produced by animals, such as human vowel sounds, and accurately determining the sound produced. Some embodiments utilize computer processing to identify the location of the sound within a waveform, select a particular time within the sound, and measure a fundamental frequency and one or more formants at the particular time. Embodiments compare the fundamental frequency and the one or more formants to known thresholds and multiples of the fundamental frequency, such as by a computer-run algorithm. The results of this comparison identify of the sound with a high degree of accuracy.

Abstract: Methods and devices for illuminating a body cavity or an internal region of a body are disclosed. In one aspect, a percutaneous illumination device for illuminating a body cavity includes an elongate member with an illumination source, and two support members disposed on the elongate member that are adapted to be positioned on opposite sides of a tissue surface for stabilizing the device. Variations on such an illumination device, kits that include such devices, and methods of utilizing such devices are all described within the present application.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for managing a plurality of tires from their procurement through their disposal. An embodiment may include a method for determining all the costs of a tire over its total service life including procurement costs, repair costs, retread costs and disposal costs. An embodiment may include managing an inventory by automatically replenishing the inventory by following a set of stored inventory management rules. An embodiment may include helping to ensure that an impermissible tire is not mounted on a vehicle. A stored set of tire mounting rules automatically check the tire being mounted against requirements for the tire set by the rules, the requirements set as to by vehicle type and wheel position.

Abstract: An authoring application enables an administrative user to generate, validate, and deploy one or more privacy notices and legal notices in web pages that may be retrieved by a client user via a web browser. Two or more of the privacy notices generated by the authoring application may be deployed in a web page, and may be selectively presented to the client user via the web browser in accordance with the notification setting selected at the web browser. Two or more of the legal notices generated by the authoring application may be deployed in the web page or in a second web page. The legal notices may be selectively presented to the client user via the web browser in accordance with the notification setting.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for managing a plurality of tires from their procurement through their disposal. An embodiment may include a method for determining all the costs of a tire over its total service life including procurement costs, repair costs, retread costs and disposal costs. An embodiment may include managing an inventory by automatically replenishing the inventory by following a set of stored inventory management rules. An embodiment may include helping to ensure that an impermissible tire is not mounted on a vehicle. A stored set of tire mounting rules automatically check the tire being mounted against requirements for the tire set by the rules, the requirements set as to by vehicle type and wheel position.

Abstract: An approach for presenting a web page to a client user via a web browser. As one example, a user preference specifying a notification setting may be received from the client user at the web browser. The notification setting may cause the web browser, upon retrieving a web page, to present one or more of a privacy notice or a legal notice to the client user. The particular way in which the privacy notice and the legal notice are presented to the client user may be varied based on the notification setting specified by the user preference.

Abstract: The invention provides for the use of isovaline or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the treatment of Pain in a mammalian subject in some preferred embodiments, the invention provides for the treatment of acute and chronic Pain syndromes where other drug therapies have limited efficacy or unacceptable toxicity in said subject.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for managing a plurality of tires from their procurement through their disposal. An embodiment may include a method for determining all the costs of a tire over its total service life including procurement costs, repair costs, retread costs and disposal costs. An embodiment may include managing an inventory by automatically replenishing the inventory by following a set of stored inventory management rules. An embodiment may include helping to ensure that an impermissible tire is not mounted on a vehicle. A stored set of tire mounting rules automatically check the tire being mounted against requirements for the tire set by the rules, the requirements set as to by vehicle type and wheel position.

Abstract: A waveform analysis of speech is disclosed. Embodiments include methods for analyzing captured sounds produced by animals, such as human vowel sounds, and accurately determining the sound produced. Some embodiments utilize computer processing to identify the location of the sound within a waveform, select a particular time within the sound, and measure a fundamental frequency and one or more formants at the particular time. Embodiments compare the fundamental frequency and the one or more formants to known thresholds and multiples of the fundamental frequency, such as by a computer-run algorithm. The results of this comparison identify of the sound with a high degree of accuracy.

Abstract: A method of preserving individual information privacy for each of a plurality of customers while providing aggregated information about the plurality of customers includes storing static customer data and dynamic customer data of the plurality of customers in a protected database. The method includes restricting shared access to the static customer data and the dynamic customer data to a set of approved privacy-preserving queries. The privacy preserving queries include a privacy-preserving aggregation query that uses one or more parameters to indicate a characteristic of interest for which aggregation of the static customer data and the dynamic customer data is requested. The privacy-preserving aggregation query may be configured to retrieve aggregated customer data related to the characteristic of interest.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for managing a plurality of tires from their procurement through their disposal. An embodiment may include a method for determining all the costs of a tire over its total service life including procurement costs, repair costs, retread costs and disposal costs. An embodiment may include managing an inventory by automatically replenishing the inventory by following a set of stored inventory management rules. An embodiment may include helping to ensure that an impermissible tire is not mounted on a vehicle. A stored set of tire mounting rules automatically check the tire being mounted against requirements for the tire set by the rules, the requirements set as to by vehicle type and wheel position.

Abstract: A surgical stapler is provided having a cartridge arm for holding staples, an anvil pivotally connected thereto to deform fired staples from the cartridge arm, and a support for substantially preventing anvil deflection during staple firing to help insure proper staple formation. Some supports allow pivoting between the anvil and cartridge arm when in a first position, but prevent or hinder the pivoting action when in a second position. Supports can also be adapted to contact the anvil at a distal position relative to the pivot point between the anvil and cartridge arm. Exemplary structures of supports embodied as one or more links or as a sleeve are described. Methods of use are also discussed.

Abstract: Various embodiments described above provide a user interface system that can expose end users and others to color management information in an easy-to-understand manner. In one or more embodiments, the user interface system can provide information that allows the user to easily ascertain whether a device, component or application is color managed, and the status of the device, component or application. Further, the user interface system can enable the user to access links that provide additional information and/or diagnostic help in the event a color management issue is identified.