Abstract: Wireless tags have a plurality of non-equivalent current pathways, each of which responds differently to an interrogation signal and collectively represent encoded information. The element is subjected to the signal, stimulating the current pathways, each of which contributes to an overall element response. The individual contributions and, hence, the information may be recovered from this overall response. The response of each of the pathways to the signal may vary in terms of one or more of resonant frequency, amplitude, damping, and Q factor.

Abstract: Tags encode information by means of spatial inhomogeneities that may be detected in the time domain; in effect, characteristics in space are transformed into time for sensing purposes. Such tags may be very inexpensively produced yet carry appreciable quantities of data. The inhomogeneities may be obtained by simple physical modifications to, or externally applied field biases operating on, materials that are very inexpensive to procure.

Abstract: An electronic data transport system includes a mobile access point and a carrier for moving the mobile access point over a surface and/or water route. The mobile access point includes a communications module for wirelessly transmitting data to and receiving data from one or more client devices when the client device is in proximity to the mobile access point.

Abstract: Tags encode information by means of spatial inhomogeneities that may be detected in the time domain; in effect, characteristics in space are transformed into time for sensing purposes. Such tags may be very inexpensively produced yet carry appreciable quantities of data. The inhomogeneities may be obtained by simple physical modifications to, or externally applied field biases operating on, materials that are very inexpensive to procure.

Abstract: Tags encode information by means of spatial inhomogeneities that may be detected in the time domain; in effect, characteristics in space are transformed into time for sensing purposes. Such tags may be very inexpensively produced yet carry appreciable quantities of data. The inhomogeneities may be obtained by simple physical modifications to, or externally applied field biases operating on, materials that are very inexpensive to procure.

Abstract: A radio frequency identification tag system (10) utilizes a radio frequency identification tag (16) that includes stored information. The tag includes an antenna element (28) and a common electrode (26), the common electrode being coupled to ground (70). The antenna element electrostatically receives an exciter signal (30) from a proximately-located exciter (12). Upon receiving the exciter signal, the tag becomes energized, thereby causing it to generate a read signal (32) based on the stored information. The antenna element then electrostatically sends the read signal to a proximately-located reader (14), which detects the stored information. Both energy and data are capacitively coupled by virtue of the unbalanced nature of the network, thus resulting in decreased coupled impedance.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating effective self-management of medication treatment by patients. A Smart Tray monitors and reports to third parties a patient's compliance with various medication treatment regimens. Medication containers are provided with electromagnetic tags that provide various information about medicament contained within a respective container. A Smart Tray is equipped with a processor and reader that interrogates each respective electromagnetic tag to identify medicament(s) contained within each container. Using the retrieved information, a Smart Tray provides visual and/or audio signals to a patient to remind the patient when and how much of various medicaments to take. A Smart Tray also monitors, via the reader, when a medication container is removed. A Smart Tray can communicate with one or more third parties, such as healthcare providers, pharmacies, and other suppliers of healthcare products and services via a computer network.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating effective self-management of medication treatment by patients. A Smart Tray monitors and reports to third parties a patient's compliance with various medication treatment regimens. Medication containers are provided with electromagnetic tags that provide various information about medicament contained within a respective container. A Smart Tray is equipped with a processor and reader that interrogates each respective electromagnetic tag to identify medicament(s) contained within each container. Using the retrieved information, a Smart Tray provides visual and/or audio signals to a patient to remind the patient when and how much of various medicaments to take. A Smart Tray also monitors, via the reader, when a medication container is removed. A Smart Tray can communicate with one or more third parties, such as healthcare providers, pharmacies, and other suppliers of healthcare products and services via a computer network.

Abstract: In a communication network having computer systems communicatively coupled to each other with communication equipment, where the computer systems are executing network applications that send and receive either encrypted or unencrypted data packets over the communication network, a method for quantifying performance of the communication network. In one embodiment, between an application program interface and a protocol stack in a computer system, where the application program interface resides in an application layer of the computer system and the protocol stack resides in a kernel layer of the computer system, the present invention executes a process for identifying a network application, where the network application originates a request data packet and a response data packet. Second, in this embodiment the present invention records time-stamps when the request data packet and the response data packet are between the application program interface and the protocol stack in the computer system.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating effective self-management of medication treatment by patients. A Smart Tray monitors and reports to third parties a patient's compliance with various medication treatment regimens. Medication containers are provided with electromagnetic tags that provide various information about medicament contained within a respective container. A Smart Tray is equipped with a processor and reader that interrogates each respective electromagnetic tag to identify medicament(s) contained within each container. Using the retrieved information, a Smart Tray provides visual and/or audio signals to a patient to remind the patient when and how much of various medicaments to take. A Smart Tray also monitors, via the reader, when a medication container is removed. A Smart Tray can communicate with one or more third parties, such as healthcare providers, pharmacies, and other suppliers of healthcare products and services via a computer network.

Abstract: A method for quantifying communication performance in a communication network comprising computer systems communicatively coupled to each other with communication equipment. In one embodiment, the present invention measures performance statistics associated with data packets sent and received by the computer systems. First, this embodiment applies a first time-stamp to data packets sent by a computer system over the communication equipment, and applies a second time-stamp to data packets received by the computer system over the communication equipment. Second, in this embodiment the present invention correlates a first data packet sent by a first computer system over the communication network to a second data packet sent by a second computer system over the communication network. Third, in this embodiment the present invention computes a difference between a first time-stamp of the first data packet and a second time-stamp of the second data packet.

Abstract: The response of an object to a single time-varying magnetic field is sensed to determine object position and/or manipulation on a horizontal or vertical surface. A time-varying interrogation signal, which interacts with tags disposed on the surface, is read by an array of sensing coils. Control circuitry receives signals from the sensing coils representing this interaction and, based thereon, determines the identity, position, and manipulation of each of the objects based on the sensed signals and the known positions of the sensing coils. Feedback to the user can be provided in the form of a localized output (e.g. light, sound, heat, etc.) physically coincident with the object.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating effective self-management of medication treatment by patients. A Smart Tray monitors and reports to third parties a patient's compliance with various medication treatment regimens. Medication containers are provided with electromagnetic tags that provide various information about medicament contained within a respective container. A Smart Tray is equipped with a processor and reader that interrogates each respective electromagnetic tag to identify medicament(s) contained within each container. Using the retrieved information, a Smart Tray provides visual and/or audio signals to a patient to remind the patient when and how much of various medicaments to take. A Smart Tray also monitors, via the reader, when a medication container is removed. A Smart Tray can communicate with one or more third parties, such as healthcare providers, pharmacies, and other suppliers of healthcare products and services via a computer network.

Abstract: A method for monitoring communication performance in a communication network comprising computer systems communicatively coupled to each other with communication equipment. In one embodiment, a computer system of a communication network measures and time-stamps network performance statistics and stores them in a memory unit within the computer system. The computer system also measures and time-stamps system performance statistics and system parameters and stores them in the memory unit within the computer system. The computer system reports the network performance statistics and the system information to a central computer system at specified time intervals. The central computer system correlates the network performance statistics and the system information for a specified time period based on the time-stamping and stores the network performance statistics and the system information in a memory unit within the computer system.

Abstract: Temperature sensing through observable, temperature-dependent effects on an interrogating magnetic field is facilitating by a sensing module having, first, a signal element that interacts with the interrogation field to produce a remotely readable magnetic response; and disposed proximate to the signal element, a temperature-sensitive component. This latter component may include a modulation element having a magnetic permeability varying with temperature in the operating range and/or a bias element comprising a magnet having a Curie temperature in the operating range. The temperature-sensitive component interacts magnetically with the signal element such that the remotely readable magnetic response is indicative of a temperature in the operating range.

Abstract: An automatic insertion connector device, for instance for use in a test environment, particularly for connection to an RJ45 type connector. The connector has a contact portion having the general form of a connector part arranged to match the connector part it is intended to connect to, and is resiliently mounted by way of being carried on resilient material on a carrier means. The resilient mounting permits some deviation from the rest position in relation to the carrier and therefore enables account to be taken of deviation from the expected location of the parts under test.

Abstract: A planar electromagnetic resonator utilizes an electromagnetically active material located between the capacitive or inductive elements of the resonator. A microscopic electrical property of this material is altered by an external condition, and that alteration, in turn, affects the behavior of the resonator in a consistent and predictable manner.

Abstract: A flexible self-sealing wall member for fuel tanks has a plurality of thin layers of natural or synthetic rubber which are held together at spaced points by lines of drop thread stitching or by spots of adhesive so that the sheets are free to move across each other between the points of connection. The wall may also include a reinforcing fabric web, an outside barrier layer, and an inside barrier layer, both impermeable to fuel held in the tank of which the wall member forms a part. The wall member is self-sealing when penetrated by a projectile because the rubber layers undergo large dynamic elongations and rapidly recover to close up the holes formed, these holes generally being out of alignment.