Abstract: A central asset registry ties Digital Asset Management (DAM) repositories into a unified system. The central asset registry removes the tracking of asset relationships from the DAMs by gathering asset metadata tags and capturing relationships between assets to provide improved speed, scalability, and flexibility in analyzing and traversing networks of relationships of digital assets. The central asset registry allows the use of a pluggable architecture and tracks and stores multi-dimensional relationships as an asset hierarchy. The asset hierarchy provides a depiction of relationship data between the assets and provides a flexible array of asset types and properties that allows the addition of new assets and new asset types without re-factoring the other data, nodes, and edges. The system also uses asset metadata to create edge relationships between the assets. The central asset registry facilitates queries and retrieval of the media assets.

Abstract: A central asset registry ties Digital Asset Management (DAM) repositories into a unified system. The central asset registry removes the tracking of asset relationships from the DAMs by gathering asset metadata tags and capturing relationships between assets to provide improved speed, scalability, and flexibility in analyzing and traversing networks of relationships of digital assets. The central asset registry allows the use of a pluggable architecture and tracks and stores multi-dimensional relationships as an asset hierarchy. The asset hierarchy provides a depiction of relationship data between the assets and provides a flexible array of asset types and properties that allows the addition of new assets and new asset types without re-factoring the other data, nodes, and edges. The system also uses asset metadata to create edge relationships between the assets. The central asset registry facilitates queries and retrieval of the media assets.

Abstract: An assembly for restricting access to a coupler includes a body, a ball cavity engagement member; and a securing mechanism. The body is configured for engagement with at least one surface of the coupler. The body includes a coupler engagement portion. The ball cavity engagement member is movably coupled to the body and configured for engagement with a ball cavity of the coupler. The securing mechanism can fix the position of the ball cavity engagement member relative to the body such that the assembly is secured to the coupler.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for routing a plurality of different types of Internet messages within a host to a plurality of agents. The method includes the steps of determining the message type of each of the plurality of different types of Internet messages and inserting a message type identifier into a packet of each message type of the plurality of different message types. The method further includes the steps of routing the packets to an Internet message distributor and distributing the messages within the Internet message distributor to the plurality of agents based upon the inserted message type identifier.

Abstract: A customizable towing hitch ball mount arrangement is provided for assembly with a hitch receiver on a vehicle. The arrangement includes a ball mount and a customizing element. The ball mount has a proximal end for insertion into an opening in the hitch receiver, an elongated tube portion, a drop portion extending from the elongated tube portion and angled with respect to a length of the elongated tube portion, and a plate extending substantially horizontally from the drop portion. The plate has an aperture for attachment of a hitch ball. The customizing element has at least one keying feature, wherein the customizing element is removably attachable to the ball mount by aligning the keying feature with a corresponding mounting surface on the drop portion of the ball mount.

Abstract: An assembly for restricting access to a coupler includes a body, a ball cavity engagement member; and a securing mechanism. The body is configured for engagement with at least one surface of the coupler. The body includes a coupler engagement portion. The ball cavity engagement member is movably coupled to the body and configured for engagement with a ball cavity of the coupler. The securing mechanism can fix the position of the ball cavity engagement member relative to the body such that the assembly is secured to the coupler.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for assigning a call to one of a plurality of agents. The method includes the steps of providing a description of the call to each of the plurality of agents, receiving a bid to handle the call from each of the plurality of agents and assigning the call to an agent of the plurality of agents with a highest relative received bid.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for routing a plurality of different types of Internet messages within a host to a plurality of agents. The method includes the steps of determining the message type of each of the plurality of different types of Internet messages and inserting a message type identifier into a packet of each message type of the plurality of different message types. The method further includes the steps of routing the packets to an Internet message distributor and distributing the messages within the Internet message distributor to the plurality of agents based upon the inserted message type identifier.