Abstract: An eyeglasses-matching tool may provide consumers with a high level of confidence that eyeglasses purchased online will have a proper fit. The consumer provides frame measurements from the consumer's current eyeglasses. The frame measurements may include a lens width, bridge width, and temple arm length, such as typically found printed on the inside temple arm of eyeglasses. The eyeglasses-matching tool may recommend eyewear styles and products that have similar measurements and may provide contextual information regarding eyewear styles, such as a relative fit compared to the consumer's current eyeglasses.

Abstract: Material is removed from a body of material, e.g. to create a bore hole, by plasma channel drilling. High voltage, high energy, rapid rise time electrical pulses are delivered many times per second to an electrode assembly in contact with the material body to generate therein elongate plasma channels which expand rapidly following electrical breakdown of the material causing the material to fracture and fragment.

Abstract: A network management system includes a plurality of network cells, each network cell associated with at least one monitored network node or element. The system also includes an instant messaging server in communication with the network nodes, and a client workstation, in communication with the instant messaging server, performs the monitoring functions. The system utilizes the instant messaging capability for acquiring, caching, transferring, storing, analyzing, correlating, and displaying network management information from the network nodes. The network cell provides for either manual or automatic control of a selected network node or element, and converts the respective management protocols into a single format that is integrated into an instant messaging data bus. Network management events from disparate and diverse network entities are sent to one or more instant messaging ‘group chat’ environments to facilitate the consolidation, processing and correlation of network events.