Abstract: A method for manages routes in a wireless network of nodes by determining a distances between each pair of nodes in a set of nodes of a wireless network. The distances are maintained in a memory of a particular node of the wireless network as a distance map in a form of a wavelet, and routing a packet between the nodes is according to the distances stored as the wavelet.

Abstract: A robotic web browser (120, 122) is disclosed capable of rendering high level program instructions received via an electronic network (150) such as the Internet. Upon rendering the downloaded instructions, the robotic web browser (120, 122) performs three-dimensional movements and plays back video and audio streams.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a computer-implemented system and method for controlling robots (41) using a high-level programming language. The invention defines three programming languages, i.e., two high-level languages and a low-level language. A first high-level programming language is referred to herein as a robot scenario language (RSL) (20), in which an end-user (18) creates a robotic presentation (40) in terms of high-level behaviors or actions. A second high-level language, referred to herein as a robot behavior language (RBL) comprised of templates for describing how each high level behavior or action in the high-level (RSL) language is to be transformed or mapped into low-level language commands for directly controlling the hardware of the robot (41). The low-level language referred to herein as a robot hardware language (RHWL).

Abstract: A method (200) for remotely managing a metric (12) adapted for use on a diagnostic medical modality (21) is provided. The diagnostic medical modality (21) is responsive to a software program (38) which, when executed, causes the diagnostic medical modality (21) to conduct a medical investigation based on the metric (12). The method (200) includes retrieving (202) via the World Wide Web (18) a metric (12) associated with the diagnostic medical modality (21); verifying (204) the integrity of the metric (12); and downloading the metric (12) to the diagnostic medical modality (21). The method (200) may be implemented by a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon one or more software programs (24) which, when executed, implement the method.

Abstract: A wireless telephone, personal digital assistant (PDA), smart remote control, or other Internet-enabled processing device includes a scalable electronic forms processing engine which supports a designated subset of the W3C recommended XForms standard. The designated subset may be selected for a given device based on the computational and memory capabilities of the device. Advantageously, the invention allows “thin” devices to process electronic forms without requiring implementation of the complete W3C recommended XForms standard.