Abstract: A method, a system and computer program products for securely enabling in-network functionality over encrypted data sessions, the method involving establishing an encrypted data session between a client communication application (100) and a server communication application (200) over a communication network; receiving and/or transmitting, by the client communication application (100), in the established encrypted data session, at least one encrypted communication data (D) from/to the server communication application (200) through a computing network element (M); and performing, by the computing network element (M), different actions other than data packet forwarding from one communication application to the other on the encrypted communication data (D). The encrypted communication data (D) has a plurality of data portions, or contexts, (CTX), each encrypted by a context key, and the different actions being specific for the computing network element (M) and for one or more of the contexts (CTX_X).

Abstract: A decorative item made from a moulded material having a density of between 2 and 7 g/cm3, wherein the moulded material includes by weight: 60 to 90% of a metallic or ceramic material having a density higher than or equal to 5 g/cm3, 10 to 32% of a plastic material including a thermoplastic resin and a coupling agent, 0 to 8% of a reinforcement, 0 to 3% of a pigment. Also, a method of manufacturing this decorative item by injection moulding.

Abstract: A group of hollow modules through which the material to be extruded flows, is provided that includes at least: a rectangular heating-shaping module (6), in which the material undergoes a temperature increase and takes on the desired shape; and a tubular cooling-solidification module (8), in which the material, which has taken on the desired shape, changes from liquid to solid with said shape. A heating-reaction module (2) is provided upstream of module (6). The heating-reaction module (2) includes an interchangeable hollow tube (3) with an external heating system (4). The heating-shaping module (6) includes detachable parts (7) and includes another external heating system (4) based on the auto-acceleration of the curing reaction and of the heat supply from said system (4). The tubular portion between module (2) and module (6) includes a shaping coupling (5) equipped with a through-hole. The extrusion module includes a circuit through which the polymer flows into at least two push compartments (20).

Abstract: An exemplary system and method for displaying technical equipment of an industrial plant includes a graphical display unit and a user interface for receiving image handling parameters. A data storing unit provides data relating to the technical equipment in the form of device data and network data describing a communication network of the industrial plant. The device data describes network devices which are all connected to the communication network and belong to the industrial plant, and the network data describes all the communication connections between the network devices. A data processing unit is arranged for retrieving the provided data, transforming all the device data and all the network data into displayable information, and providing the image representations together with other displayable information to the graphical display unit. The graphical display unit is arranged to display the image representations and other displayable information according to the image handling parameters.

Abstract: Binder for injection moulding composition including: from 45 to 50 volume percent of a polymeric base, at least 34 volume percent of a mixture of waxes or a mixture of wax and palm oil, and from 11 to 16 volume percent of a surfactant, wherein the polymeric base contains ethylene and methacrylic or acrylic acid copolymers, or ethylene copolymers comprising a maleic anhydride or a mixture of such copolymers, in addition to polyethylene, polypropylene and an acrylic resin, the respective quantities of the binder components being such that added together, they do not exceed 100 volume percent.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an austenitic stainless steel workpiece including the following successive steps: 1) providing a powder and sintering the powder to form a sintered alloy with an austenitic structure; the alloy having a nitrogen content greater than or equal to 0.1% by weight, 2) treating the sintered alloy to transform the austenitic structure into a ferritic structure or ferrite+austenite two-phase structure on a surface layer of the alloy, 3) treating the sintered alloy to transform the ferritic or ferrite+austenite two-phase structure obtained in step 2) into an austenitic structure and, after cooling, forming the workpiece which, on the layer subjected to the transformations in steps 2) and 3), has a density higher than that of the core of the workpiece. The present description also relates to the workpiece obtained by the method which has a very dense surface layer (?99%).

Abstract: The distribution network comprising a plurality of caching nodes and wherein the web content had been statically identified as an uncacheable content and originated on an origin-server and wherein the method establishes a time to live, TTL, period value to said uncacheable content based on users requests and responds to said users requests by sending to at least to one CDN user said uncacheable content within said TTL period value. Each one of said plurality of caching nodes in said distribution network including a content caching manager and a pseudo-dynamic content TTL predictor and performing the following steps: a) contacting each one of said plurality of nodes with a centralized repository, in order to download the configuration file of a plurality of said CDN users.

Abstract: A method, a system and computer program products for securely enabling in-network functionality over encrypted data sessions, the method involving establishing an encrypted data session between a client communication application (100) and a server communication application (200) over a communication network; receiving and/or transmitting, by the client communication application (100), in the established encrypted data session, at least one encrypted communication data (D) from/to the server communication application (200) through a computing network element (M); and performing, by the computing network element (M), different actions other than data packet forwarding from one communication application to the other on the encrypted communication data (D). The encrypted communication data (D) has a plurality of data portions, or contexts, (CTX), each encrypted by a context key, and the different actions being specific for the computing network element (M) and for one or more of the contexts (CTX_X).

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for automated handling of at least one working step of a workflow in an automation and/or electrical engineering project via a data input interface, a processing unit and a data output interface connected to the processing unit for transmitting any data read in by the data input interface or generated by the processing unit to at least one of a data repository, another processing unit and/or a display unit. The data input interface can read in input values belonging to the at least one working step of the workflow, and an input uncertainty including a range of input values. The processing unit can generate an output value of the working step from the input value, and calculate an output uncertainty characterizing a range of the output value, by taking into account a parameter and/or a technical condition of the working step.

Abstract: The invention provides methods of encoding content for distribution over a network and methods for decoding encoded content which has been distributed over the network. In a first example in which the content is divided into a plurality of segments and each segment comprising a plurality of blocks of data, the method comprises selecting a segment from the plurality of segments and selecting at least two blocks of the selected segment from a store of blocks. A new encoded block is created from a linear combination of the selected blocks.

Abstract: Comprises identifying an end point or content server that can best serve an end user that sent a DNS request to an ISP DNS resolver, given a geographically distributed network of end points. In particular, the method further comprises using the end points themselves and a tracker to identify and notify to the end user the IP addresses of the least-loaded and closest end points that can best serve the content request.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite component of a timepiece or of a jewelry part, the composite component including a porous ceramic part and a metallic material filling the pores of the ceramic part, including providing a porous ceramic preform of the component, providing a metallic material, heating the metallic material to a temperature higher than the melting point of the metallic material, filling the pores of the ceramic preform with the molten metallic material, cooling the metallic material and the ceramic preform to obtain a solidified metallic material in the pores of the ceramic preform, and applying finishing treatments to obtain the composite component, wherein the porous ceramic preform consists essentially of a material selected from the group consisting of Si3N4, SiO2 and mixtures thereof, and the metallic material is gold, platinum, palladium metals or alloys of these metals.

Abstract: The invention describes an easy-to-manufacture wide-band antenna arrangement (100) and a kitchen appliance including this antenna arrangement. A resonating part of any antenna arrangement has a flat shape, its outer edges have an elliptical curvature and a coaxial cable is located at a feed in a slit in the middle of the resonating plate. The resonating plate is parallel to a ground plane 105, and together those parts form a planar inverted-F antenna. Such an antenna is useful in combination with a kitchen hob and sensor applications that wirelessly communicate with the kitchen hob, e.g. for improving cooking results.

Abstract: A system analyzer and a method for analyzing an impact of a change in a component of a distributed control system (DCS) are disclosed. The system can collect and store data representing the DCS components and their interconnection as well as signals of the DCS components. The DCS can be graphically modeled with nodes and directed edges, wherein a node represents either a type of DCS component or a signal of a DCS components, and wherein an edge is an “influence”-edge, or a “contains”-edge. Information on a change of a DCS components is received, a depth first or breadth first search is performed over the “influence”-edges and “contains”-edges and determine unchanged DCS components which would be affected by a malfunction, a removal or a taking out of operation of the at least one DCS component, and information on the affected DCS components is transmitted to an operator interface.

Abstract: A system analyzer and a method for analyzing an impact of a change in a component of a distributed control system (DCS) are disclosed. The system can collect and store data representing the DCS components and their interconnection as well as signals of the DCS components. The DCS can be graphically modeled with nodes and directed edges, wherein a node represents either a type of DCS component or a signal of a DCS components, and wherein an edge is an “influence”-edge, or a “contains”-edge. Information on a change of a DCS components is received, a depth first or breadth first search is performed over the “influence”-edges and “contains”-edges and determine unchanged DCS components which would be affected by a malfunction, a removal or a taking out of operation of the at least one DCS component, and information on the affected DCS components is transmitted to an operator interface.

Abstract: Comprises identifying an end point or content server that can best serve an end user that sent a DNS request to an ISP DNS resolver, given a geographically distributed network of end points. In particular, the method further comprises using the end points themselves and a tracker to identify and notify to the end user the IP addresses of the least-loaded and closest end points that can best serve the content request.

Abstract: The distribution network comprising a plurality of caching nodes and wherein the web content had been statically identified as an uncacheable content and originated on an origin-server and wherein the method establishes a time to live, TTL, period value to said uncacheable content based on users requests and responds to said users requests by sending to at least to one CDN user said uncacheable content within said TTL period value. Each one of said plurality of caching nodes in said distribution network including a content caching manager and a pseudo-dynamic content TTL predictor and performing the following steps: a) contacting each one of said plurality of nodes with a centralized repository, in order to download the configuration file of a plurality of said CDN users.

Abstract: An exemplary system and method for displaying technical equipment of an industrial plant includes a graphical display unit and a user interface for receiving image handling parameters. A data storing unit provides data relating to the technical equipment in the form of device data and network data describing a communication network of the industrial plant. The device data describes network devices which are all connected to the communication network and belong to the industrial plant, and the network data describes all the communication connections between the network devices. A data processing unit is arranged for retrieving the provided data, transforming all the device data and all the network data into displayable information, and providing the image representations together with other displayable information to the graphical display unit. The graphical display unit is arranged to display the image representations and other displayable information according to the image handling parameters.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for automated handling of at least one working step of a workflow in an automation and/or electrical engineering project via a data input interface, a processing unit and a data output interface connected to the processing unit for transmitting any data read in by the data input interface or generated by the processing unit to at least one of a data repository, another processing unit and/or a display unit. The data input interface can read in input values belonging to the at least one working step of the workflow, and an input uncertainty including a range of input values. The processing unit can generate an output value of the working step from the input value, and calculate an output uncertainty characterizing a range of the output value, by taking into account a parameter and/or a technical condition of the working step.

Abstract: In the method of the invention, said CDN comprises a plurality of server nodes, said content acquisition process is performed when an end-user requests uploading content and said method is characterised in that it comprises: —selecting, a central entity receiving an uploading request from said end-user, at least one of said plurality of server nodes according to location of said end user, current status of said plurality of server nodes, CPU requirements of said plurality of server nodes and/or any other monitoring parameter of said CDN; —directing, said central entity, said uploading request from said end-user to said at least one of said plurality of server nodes; and—uploading, said end-user, said content to said at least one of said plurality of server nodes upon acceptance of said uploading request by said at least one of said plurality of server nodes. The system of the invention is arranged to implement the method of the invention.