Abstract: Fabric care articles with scent identifiers and education scent elements provide users with an improved scent experience.

Abstract: Fabric care articles with scent identifiers and education scent elements provide users with an improved scent experience.

Abstract: Multiple use fabric conditioning compositions comprising blooming perfume are useful for conditioning fabric.

Abstract: A system and method is described for providing shared access to a three dimensional virtual environment synchronously with hypertext browsing. A cospace server receives a messages indicating requests for hypertext files on a network from a client. The cospace server tracks the requests and stores components or the addresses of components of the requested hypertext files. When a threshold number of clients have requested a hypertext file, the cospace server constructs a virtual three dimensional room description and sends it to the clients that are browsing the file. The virtual three dimensional room description is rendered as a virtual three dimensional room at the client, and typically includes portals to other virtual three dimensional rooms. A user is represented in the virtual room as an avatar, and can communicate with other users at other clients.

Abstract: Frequency regulating apparatus comprising a high power, voltage variable dielectric varactor or capacitor (or ferroelectric voltage variable dielectric capacitor) for use as a control element in the regulation circuit that actively tunes a resonant network to modulate power delivered to a load. The voltage variable dielectric capacitor comprises a substrate having a bottom electrode 33 formed thereon. A dielectric material is disposed on the substrate is a crystallized ceramic material that preferably comprises a barium, strontium, and titanium mixture. A top electrode is disposed on top of the crystallized ceramic material. Methods of fabricating the voltage variable dielectric varactor (capacitor) are also disclosed.

Abstract: An information retrieval system implemented as a virtual data base management system which uses a knowledge base management system to provide a problem-oriented conceptual schema for one or more standard data base management systems. In the conceptual schema, a hierarchy of concepts is used to organize individual objects. A classifier determines which concepts an individual object is a representative of and determines the relationship of new concepts to existing concepts. The use of a knowledge base with a classifier permits conversion of queries into concepts and detection of changes in the relationships between individual objects and the concepts. A window-based user interface permits flexible and experimental access to the information. Special features of the user interface permit the user to specify conversion of a query into a concept, to establish monitors to detect such changes, and to define a query by specifying a portion of a graph.

Abstract: Methods of fabricating a porous ceramic composite having voltage-variable dielectric properties. The composite is made as follows. A polycrystalline ferroelectric powder, which is a ferroelectric perovskite such as barium strontium titanate, for example, is provided. The powder, a binder and a filler are then mixed in water to form a slurry. The powder-binder-filler slurry is then dried. The dried powder-binder-filler slurry is granulated. The granulated powder-binder-filler is pressed into a die. The binder and filler are then burned out to form a fragile porous ash-like structure. The porous structure is then sintered to form porous ceramic parts. The porous ceramic parts are then machined tiles. The machined porous tiles may then be tested for microwave properties. Fabrication methods for producing porous ferroelectric ceramic-polymer composite tiles or subaperture blanks and continuous transverse stub electronically scanned antenna plates or subapertures are also disclosed.

Abstract: An improved information retrieval system user interface for retrieving information from a plurality of sources and for storing information source descriptions in a knowledge base. The user interface includes a hypertext browser and a knowledge base browser/editor. The hypertext browser allows a user to browse an unstructured information space through the use of interactive hypertext links. The knowledge base browser/editor displays a directed graph representing a generalization taxonomy of the knowledge base, with the nodes representing concepts and edges representing relationships between concepts. The system allows users to store information source descriptions in the knowledge base via graphical pointing means. By dragging an iconic representation of an information source from the hypertext browser to a node in the directed graph, the system will store an information source description object in the knowledge base.

Abstract: An information retrieval system implemented as a virtual data base management system which uses a knowledge base management system to provide a problem-oriented conceptual schema for one or more standard data base management systems. In the conceptual schema, a hierarchy of concepts is used to organize individual objects. A classifier determines which concepts an individual object is a representative of and determines the relationship of new concepts to existing concepts. The use of a knowledge base with a classifier permits conversion of queries into concepts and detection of changes in the relationships between individual objects and the concepts. A window-based user interface permits flexible and experimental access to the information. Special features of the user interface permit the user to specify conversion of a query into a concept, to establish monitors to detect such changes, and to define a query by specifying a portion of a graph.

Abstract: A query translator translates a query between a graphical user interface and a knowledge representation system. The knowledge representation system reformulates the query and generates an access plan to access data requested by the query. The access plan utilizes several different protocols to access the query information located in dissimilar databases distributed throughout a network. The knowledge representation system generates the access plan by first processing the query through a world view which defines the information in conceptual terms that a human being would understand and then processes the query through a system/network view which redefines the query into network and database access information so that the data requested by the query can be located.