Abstract: An aqueous polymer blend composition containing particles of a first polymer and particles of a second polymer with preferred molecular weight ranges is provided. Coatings prepared from the aqueous polymer blend composition may be employed as coatings which have water whitening resistance and provide resistance to efflorescence to cementitious substrates, such as roof tiles. A method of preparing a coated cementitious substrate with the aqueous polymer blend composition and an article containing the coated cementitious substrate are also provided.

Abstract: A storage processor particularly suited to RAID systems provides high throughput for applications such as streaming video data. An embodiment is configured as an ASIC with a high degree of parallelism in its interconnections. The preferred embodiment provides a store and forward architecture configured around a switch with prioritization on data pathways critical to high throughput.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for negotiating the purchase of goods and/or services by customers utilizes a simulated human merchant having predefined behavioral attributes. An algorithm representing behavioral attributes of a simulated human merchant is used to receive customer input data relating to particular goods and/or services desired to be purchased. The customer input data is processed to generate merchant responses to the customer input data, and the sale of goods and/or services are agreed to at a particular price as a result of processing of customer replies to merchant responses according to the algorithm.

Abstract: A storage processor particularly suited to RAID systems provides high throughput for applications such as streaming video data. An embodiment is configured as an ASIC with a high degree of parallelism in its interconnections. The preferred embodiment provides a store and forward architecture configured around a switch with prioritization on data pathways critical to high throughput.

Abstract: A storage processor particularly suited to RAID systems provides high throughput for applications such as streaming video data. An embodiment is configured as an ASIC with a high degree of parallelism in its interconnections. User memory may pass through memory in a single hop by combining parity generation with FIFO buffering in the read and write user data paths. Independent memory channels may be controlled to level the load providing high memory bandwidth.

Abstract: An aqueous coating composition containing comb copolymer particles is disclosed. The comb copolymer has a polymer backbone with at least one attached graft segment. Disclosed is a select comb copolymer having select values for the weight % ranges and glass transition temperature ranges of the backbone and the attached graft segment. An aqueous coating composition containing particles of this select comb copolymer is useful for preparing semi-gloss dried coatings with acceptable scrub resistance. A method of forming a coating from the aqueous coating composition is also disclosed.

Abstract: A storage processor particularly suited to RAID systems provides high throughput for applications such as streaming video data. An embodiment is configured as an ASIC with a high degree of parallelism in its interconnections. The communications architecture provides saturation of user data pathways with low complexity and low latency by employing multiple memory channels under software control, an efficient parity calculation mechanism and other features.

Abstract: A storage processor particularly suited to RAID systems provides high throughput for applications such as streaming video data. An embodiment is configured as an ASIC with a high degree of parallelism in its interconnections. User memory may pass through memory in a single hop by combining parity generation with FIFO buffering in the read and write user data paths. Independent memory channels may be controlled to level the load providing high memory bandwidth.

Abstract: A detachable keyboard for a PDA. The keyboard and the PDA have respective form factors and the keyboard has an alphanumeric arrangement of keys and a PDA cradle operatively associated with the keyboard. The keyboard form factor and the PDA form factor have close integration with each other.

Abstract: There is provided an automated download vehicle monitoring system for use with a vehicle. The monitoring system is provided with a GPS receiver which is installed in the vehicle. The GPS receiver is configured to receive a GPS locational signal. The monitoring system is further provided with a data logger which is configured to store logged data therein. The data logger is in electrical communication with the GPS receiver for receiving therefrom GPS locational data representative of the received GPS locational signal. The data logger is configured to incorporate the received GPS locational data with the logged data. The monitoring system is further provided with a download controller which is in electrical communication with the data logger for retrieving logged data therefrom. The download controller is configured to determine a vehicle location of the vehicle based upon the received GPS locational signal.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a method of treating an ischemic disorder in a subject which comprises administering to the subject a pharmaceutically acceptable form of inactivated Factor IX in a sufficient amount over a sufficient period of time to inhibit coagulation so as to treat the ischemic disorder in the subject.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a method for treating an ischemic disorder in a subject which comprises administering to the subject a pharmaceutically acceptable Factor IXa compound in a sufficient amount over a sufficient time period so as to treat the ischemic disorder in the subject. The invention further provides a method for treating an ischemic disorder in a subject which comprises administering to the subject a pharmaceutically acceptable form of inactivated Factor IXa in a sufficient amount over a sufficient period of time to inhibit coagulation so as to treat the ischemic disorder in the subject.

Abstract: A height adjustable bedside table having a gas spring with a gas cylinder and reciprocating shaft and a locking mechanism that locks the shaft against movement with respect to the cylinder while maintaining a common longitudinal axis of the cylinder and shaft. The locking mechanism is mounted to the gas cylinder and includes a locking plate having an aperture which receives the reciprocating shaft to selectively lock the shaft with respect to the cylinder. The locking plate is mounted for selective movement to lock the shaft in one position and to free the shaft for longitudinal movement with respect to the locking plate in another position. A locking plate spring is mounted to the one frame member for biasing the locking plate to the one position.

Abstract: A universal bed rail mount for securing bedside rail risers to a mattress supporting bed frame is disclosed. The mount comprises an L-shaped support for embracing the bed frame and is formed of two legs having an opening at an outer portion of each of the legs. The mount also includes at least one tension plate having a hole at a central portion thereof and having bearing surfaces at each of opposite ends of the plate. The bearing surfaces are adapted to be received in the openings in the outer portion of each of the legs. A bolt is received in the tension plate and is adapted to abut the bed frame embraced by the L-shaped support. An adjustable mechanical advantage element is on the bolt and on the tension plate to selectively adjust the position of the bolt in the hole in the tension plate and thereby adjust the tension between the L-shaped support and the tension plate with the bed frame therebetween. A riser guide support is affixed to an exterior surface of one of the legs.

Abstract: An overbed table having a supporting base, an adjustable vertical column on the base and a table top supported by a cantilever mourned support brace mounted between the vertical column and the end of the supported table top. The table top can have a slidable vanity drawer mounted on the bottom of the table top. A second table top can be pivotally mounted under the table top. The table can also have a double table top. The double table top has spaced frictional driving wheels which cooperate with configured edges on a pair of vertically stacked table tops. One table top is operatively positioned between the driving wheels, while the second table top is operatively coupled to the outside surface of the driving wheels. Motion by either table top in a first direction will cause the other table top to move in the opposite direction. A vanity drawer can be mounted under the lower table top.

Abstract: A bedside table has a base with a vertical tube thereon, a tabletop with a vertical member slidably disposed in the tube, and a locking mechanism which can releasably lock the tube and vertical member against relative movement.

Abstract: A bedside table having a safety top that is free to rise from any prior set level when upward pressure is applied. The table has a gear driven lead screw for setting the height of the table relative to a patient bed. If, for any reason, the patient bed should rise, the table top will safely rise with the bed regardless of the height to which it has previously been set.

Abstract: A bedside table has a base with a vertical tube thereon, a tabletop with a vertical member slidably disposed in the tube, and a locking mechanism which can releasably lock the tube and vertical member against relative movement.

Abstract: A bed rail support and mounting mechanism for attachment to a bed frame comprising a folding multi-link framework, a folding diagonal locking linkage and a spring counterbalance whereby a bed rail may be easily lowered or raised and locked in position. A bed including the mechanism is also disclosed.

Abstract: A vertically adjustable table includes a base having an upright rectangular tube, a square post slidably received within the tube, and a table top supported at the upper end of the post. The post slidably engages one of the narrow walls of the tube and a horizontal slot is provided near the top of the opposite narrow wall thereof. An integral locking member made from a bent metal plate is generally U-shaped, has a bight located near the upper end of the second wall of the tube and has two legs which diverge downwardly. One leg extends into a space between the tube and post, has a semicylindrical inward bend near the lower end thereof which is of a diameter slightly greater than the space between the post and tube, and has an elongate tab at the outer end thereof which is loosely received in the slot in the tube.