Abstract: Methods and systems to suggest information to be used with an item being listed for sale may include analyzing a plurality of stored entries of words and identifying certain entries based on desirability scores associated with those entries. The entries and the desirability scores may be identified based on their frequency of use in the plurality of stored entries and/or in the title information or other information associated with items offered for sale.

Abstract: The present invention is provided with a concealed embedded component, which comprises a lower main body with a cool water inlet passage, a hot water inlet passage, a mixing water passage and at least an outlet passage,; an embedded box, comprising a box body and a fixing frame covering the box body, a water testing element with the bottom surface disposed with a first passage and a second passage; the lower main body is disposed in the box body, the water testing element is disposed in the box body, the water testing element covers the lower main body to make the outlet passage, the mixing water passage connected to the cool water inlet passage or the hot water inlet passage. The lower main body is disposed in the box body to be separated from the concrete, it is convenient to disassemble for maintenance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process A process for modifying a layered double hydroxide (LDH), the process comprising, a. providing a material comprising a layered double hydroxide of formula: [Mz+1-xM?y+x(OH)2]q+(Xn?)q/n.bH2O wherein M and M? are metal cations, z is 1 or 2, x is 0.1 to 1, b is 0 to 5, y is 3 or 4, X is an anion, n is 1 to 3 and q is determined by x, y and z, b. optionally washing the material at least once with a mixture of water and a mixing solvent miscible with water, and c.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a dual beamsplitting element based excimer laser pulse stretching device comprising two beam splitting elements and one confocal resonator. The first beamsplitting element splits incident laser beam into two beams, one beam enters the confocal resonator, generates a certain time delay and then is incident on the second beamsplitting element, and the second beam is directly incident on the second beamsplitting element. The second beamsplitting element further splits each of the incident laser beams into two beams, one of the two beams enters the confocal resonator, generates a certain time delay and is returned back to the first beamsplitting element to be further split, and the other of the two beams is combined with other beams which are direct outputs after being split by the beamsplitting elements or being optically delayed by the confocal resonator to form a stretched output beam.

Abstract: A brush-less motor is disclosed, comprising a stator, a rotor, a plurality of field-effect tubes, a commutation circuit board, a control circuit board and a motor end cap, wherein the motor end cap comprises a front end cap and a rear end cap which are mutually fixedly connected to form an integrated motor; the plurality of field-effect tubes is directly fixed at the motor front end cap; the commutation circuit board and the control circuit board are both connected to the motor front end cap. The field-effect tubes of the brush-less motor are directly installed on a housing of the motor, ensuring good heat dissipation, saving heat sinks and cost; the integrated brush-less motor runs more smoothly and imposes requirements which are not as high as those imposed by the split brush-less motor on the accuracy of the housing. Thus, the reject ratio of products during batch production is reduced.

Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and computer-readable media for named data network (NDN) inter/intra-domain mobility. A complete de-coupling of identity and addressing space is established. This provides separation of control and forwarding allowing rich policy based routing, using SDN principles, as well as policy based global resolution. In one embodiment, the de-coupling of identity from location is achieved by a changeable forwarding label field in a header that can have nodal/domain/global scope. This disclosure provides content routing/mobility to be handled with a high degree of flexibility. This disclosure also provides mobility as a service for a component of a name space.

Abstract: A virtual secure mode is enabled for a virtual machine operating in a computing environment that is associated with a plurality of different trust levels. First, a virtual secure mode image is loaded into one or more memory pages of a virtual memory space of the virtual machine. Then, the one or more memory pages of the virtual memory space are made inaccessible to one or more trust levels having a relatively lower trust level than a launching trust level that is used by a virtual secure mode loader to load the virtual secure mode image. A target virtual trust level is also enabled on a launching virtual processor for the virtual machine that is higher than the launching trust level.

Abstract: A content router, comprising a plurality of physical links to other nodes in an information centric network, a receiver coupled to the plurality of physical links configured to receive messages, a transmitter coupled to the plurality of physical links configured to transmit messages, and a service publishing and discovery (SPD) module comprising a processor and memory device coupled to the receiver and to the transmitter, wherein the SPD is configured to store status updates of the physical links, wherein the SPD is configured to determine a next hop and a number of hops to forward a received message based on a prefix in a name-based service discovery protocol name of a received message.

Abstract: A modeling system and modeling method based on a logical relation, including an operation task integrating module, a task interpreter, a graph layout correcting module, a graph wiring correcting module and a database model increment correcting module, wherein the database model increment correcting module includes a graph increment calculating unit and a model increment calculating unit. The system, through description of the logical relation and based on support of the automatic wiring technology, realizes the graph-model integrated generation of a new grid model of the power system which is based on the description of the logical relation; the grid model is completely defined and modified on “one net”, which is different from the original way that the power system model is established on countless net graphs, thereby helping the grid operation manager to accurately and rapidly establish and modify the grid model of the full system.

Abstract: An integrated lens with integrated functional optical surfaces for use in optical communication is disclosed. The integrated lens includes first and second cavities and a fiber adapter. The device also includes integrated first and second lenses. The first cavity houses one or more optical transmitting and/or receiving devices. The second cavity has a first optical surface and an optional second optical surface. The fiber adapter has the second lens. The integrated lens enables a small size, a light weight, high coupling and a high transmission efficiency, and can be produced by injection molding using a single mold. The integrated lens is applicable to optical signal coupling, fiber connections, optical modules, and optical or optoelectronic communication.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for configuring programmable logic devices having multiple programmable hardware units configurable in one or more functional modes. The programmable hardware units are coupled to independent switch devices (e.g., multiplexers) that select configuration patterns stored in a common and shared configuration memory. The configuration memory includes a set of configuration registers to store the configuration patterns, which configuration patterns correspond to the one or more functional modes. The configuration registers may be addressed using an index of addresses stored in memory that identify a select line in one of the switch devices for a particular programmable hardware unit. Each select line in a switch device corresponds to a particular one of the configuration registers storing the configuration pattern. The addressed configuration register is accessed to retrieve the configuration pattern and configure the programmable hardware unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing yeast beta-D-glucan using a solubilization technology based on molecular assembly, comprising the following steps: (1) micro-fluidizing an enzymatic hydrolysate of yeast cell walls at 70 to 200 MPa, and then centrifuging to obtain a precipitate; (2) resuspending the precipitate obtained in step (1) with a ionic liquid, then dispersing to obtain a solution; wherein the ionic liquid is 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate or 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride; (3) centrifuging the solution obtained in step (2), and then adding ethanol, centrifuging and collecting a precipitate; (4) resuspending the precipitate obtained in step (3) with water, then centrifuging and collecting a supernatant. Preferably, the method further comprises (5): spray drying the supernatant obtained in step (4) to obtain a yeast beta-D-glucan powder.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically publish data items associated with a news event. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining, using one or more processors, an event of a plurality of events as associated with a heightened user interest, identifying one or more listings from a plurality of listings as matching the event associated with the heightened user interest, and presenting a visual representation of a relationship between the event and the one or more listings such that the one or more listings are displayed as visually related to the event.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for validating application deployment topology in a cloud environment. There is provided an apparatus for validating application deployment topology in a cloud environment comprising: a topology skeleton generator configured to generate, based on multiple VMs and script packages running on the VMs created by a user and required to deploy an application as well as running order of script packages and data dependency between script packages set by the user, a topology skeleton that comprises at least scripts of script packages of respective VMs and running order of the script packages; and a simulator configured to simulate a runtime environment in the cloud environment at the apparatus, thereby validating the running order and data dependency with respect to the topology skeleton, wherein the simulator is installed in the apparatus by using a simulator installation package retrieved from the cloud environment.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a channel access method and system. The channel access method includes the steps of: receiving an access request for accessing a parent channel from a user; obtaining a reception channel information currently corresponding to the parent channel in response to the access request, wherein the reception channel information is a channel identification information of a sub channel corresponding to a preset reception channel switching requirement; and connecting the user to the sub channel identified by the obtained reception channel information according to the obtained reception channel information. The present invention makes it conducive for the user requesting an access to be connected to a preset sub channel and realize user distribution.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the memory contains instructions that when executed by the processor cause the apparatus to receive a migration request from a virtual machine (VM) proxy running on a first server hosting a VM, wherein the migration request comprises a VM identifier associated with the VM comprising a globally unique VM name and a current VM address associated with the first server, and wherein data packets associated with the VM are routed to the VM based upon the VM identifier and instruct a VM proxy running on a second server to receive the VM from the first server in response to the migration request, wherein the second server receives the VM, and wherein the VM name remains unchanged while the current VM address becomes associated with the second server after the second server receives the VM.

Abstract: An aspect includes a computer system with a widget hierarchical layout correlation parser to: receive widget objects and widget object methods; and generate, based on the widget objects and widget object methods and using a symbol table derived from semantic analysis, a multi-level tree-like widget layout structure including nodes respectively corresponding to the widget objects and relationships between the nodes, with: (i) the relationships between the nodes including relationship types including: siblings, parents, children and self, and (ii) a determination of relationships for each node determines any parent(s), sibling(s) and/or children within one level of the multi-level tree-like widget layout structure. For each given widget object, a resource string reference parser parses source code of the given widget object to: collect setMethods arguments for the given widget object, and trace back to a message key in a resource file associated with the given widget object according to the symbol table.

Abstract: Systems and methods for scanning signatures in a string field. In one implementation, the invention provides a method for signature scanning. The method includes receiving a particular string field, scanning the particular string field for a plurality of signatures using a larger scan step size, scanning the particular string field for the remaining signatures that are shorter than what can be scanned by the larger scan step size separately either using the same scanning method but a smaller scan step size or using a different scan method and the same or a smaller scan step size, and outputting any identified signatures in the particular string field.

Abstract: X-ray scanning methods and systems are provided in embodiments of the present inventions. According to one illustrative implementation, an exemplary method may comprise: collecting background data when no X-ray is emitted; collecting air data when X-rays are emitted and there is no object to be scanned in an inspection channel; scanning an object to collect original scanning data; and preprocessing the original scanning data according to the background data and the air data to acquire scanned image data. In some embodiments, when performing an X-ray scanning of a static object, implementations may measure the background data and the air data and process the scanning data, thereby solving noise issues caused by mechanical vibration and thus improving the measurement accuracy.

Abstract: A method includes requesting, by a first wireless intelligent content acceleration (WICA) unit, content from a provider and receiving, by the first WICA unit, a first transmission over a backhaul link, the first transmission being based on the request. The method also includes determining whether the first transmission includes a signature without a first block of data or the signature and the first block of data. Additionally, the method includes, upon determining that the first transmission includes the signature without the first block of data, retrieving the first block of data from a content cache in accordance with the signature, and, upon determining that the first transmission includes the signature and the first block of data, saving the signature and the first block of data in the content cache. Also, the method includes processing the first block of data.