Abstract: A new and novel non-lethal pellet shaped marking round for use with air rifles or air pistols, which utilizes the technology and ballistics of a bullet-shaped pellet projectile, and is designed to travel through a rifled barrel or a polygonal rifling barrel. Also disclosed is a novel non-lethal marking round pellet designed with grooves which imitate the spiral caused by a rifled barrel while utilizing a smooth bore barrel.

Abstract: Apparatus, method and SW for 3D face recognition. The method includes: processing a plurality of initial registrations, each initial registration made by a user, stored in a storage, and including a registration facial image taken with a user apparatus; receiving a current three-dimensional facial image of a current user taken with an authorized three-dimensional camera; searching the plurality of registration facial images for a match with the current three-dimensional facial image based on selected facial features; and if a registration facial image matching with the current three-dimensional facial image is found, confirming the initial registration having the matching registration facial image, and replacing the registration facial image with the current three-dimensional facial image in the storage.

Abstract: A new and novel non-lethal pellet shaped marking round for use with air rifles or air pistols, which utilizes the technology and ballistics of a bullet-shaped pellet projectile, and is designed to travel through a rifled barrel or a polygonal rifling barrel. Also disclosed is a novel non-lethal marking round pellet designed with grooves which imitate the spiral caused by a rifled barrel while utilizing a smooth bore barrel.

Abstract: Contact centers typically have an entry process to receive incoming contacts and distribute those appropriately amongst agents associated with the contact center. This entry process is often complex and time consuming. This invention allows users of the contact centre to reach a particular agent without undergoing the entry process. This is achieved without compromising security or giving away details about the agents.

Abstract: A softphone telephony application is provided within a browser using a visible frame to provide event notifications and allow a user to issue commands and a hidden frame which receive asynchronous event notifications as a dynamic HTML stream. Outgoing control commands are implemented as web service behaviours. In this way, all of the functionality required to control a CTI application on a server and to receive event notifications from the CTI application can be provided using standard browser technology and without requiring the installation of any dedicated software or the provision of non-standard communication channels.

Abstract: Methods are described herein, for improving the accuracy of propagation delay measurements of programmable electronic devices in a production environment. In one method, a built-in self-test is implemented by configuring an oscillator and a counter connected to each other within the PLD. The oscillator is enabled to oscillate for a pre-determined length of time and to cause the counter to count up at the end of each cycle of oscillation. The counter reading is correlated to an accurate propagation delay measurement by using a previously generated counter-delay correlation curve. In other methods, the counter is built outside of the logic of the PLD. Methods are described for adapting typical output macro cells to provide combinatorial feedback for configuring oscillators within PLDs without such capabilities.

Abstract: A method for creating and accessing a graphical user interface in the overscan area outside the area of the display normally visible to users of the common operating systems. This normal display area is generally known as the “desktop”. The desktop serves as the graphical user interface to the operating system. The desktop displays images representing documents and applications available to the user (icons). The desktop is restricted in the common environments to a predetermined set of resolutions (e.g., 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768) as defined by VGA and SuperVGA standards. Displayable borders outside this area are the overscan.

Abstract: An improvement to electronic displays of information in public places such as transportation terminals and retail stores. The system includes combinations of fixed display screens as well as personal devices such as portable computers communicating via radio networks and portable telephones communicating via telephone messaging protocols. The radio broadcasts to portable computers and telephones are tailored to the specific location, either the entire public facility or some sub-portion of the facility. When sub-portions of the facility receive different radio communications directed to wireless computers and mobile telephones, the fixed display screens in sub-locations also receive customized content particular to the sub-location.

Abstract: A system that uses computer driven visual displays in area-defined public places to communicate public alerts to people in those places using large publicly viewable computer driven visual displays and/or computer driven visual displays in the form of hand held mobile telephones, personal digital assistants, and laptop computers. All of these displays can be connected via computer networks, using wireless networks for the mobile devices. With the invented system, public alert messages that are relevant to a locality are distributed via computer networks to computer driven image displays within that locality. They are displayed on all displays, all at once.

Abstract: Vanes positioned immediately adjacent the swept area of a moving friction brake rotor induce a flow of air over the rotor by displacing the boundary layer of gases from the rotor surface and conducting such layer along the intercepting surface of the vane, and thus inducing a flow of cooler air over the rotor. Under heavy braking, friction pad particles and substantial quantities of thermal energy in the superheated gases of the boundary layer are removed by the vanes.

Abstract: A client accesses an application provided on a server using web services to formulate appropriate commands to the application. The client additionally downloads from the server its own web services provider, and the server maintains an application to consume services provider by the client-side provider. In this way, the server is provided with the ability to issue to the client commands which can be interpreted by the client as event notifications and messages. In this way, web services can be used in parallel streams to be provide unsolicited event messaging from the client to the server and vice versa. This has particular application in the provision of a computer telephone integration (CTI) client which needs to receive unsolicited events messaging relating to a telephony device under its control.

Abstract: A softphone telephony application is provided within a browser using a visible frame to provide event notifications and allow a user to issue commands and a hidden frame which receive asynchronous event notifications as a dynamic HTML stream. Outgoing control commands are implemented as web service behaviours. In this way, all of the functionality required to control a CTI application on a server and to receive event notifications from the CTI application can be provided using standard browser technology and without requiring the installation of any dedicated software or the provision of non-standard communication channels.

Abstract: Contact centers typically have an entry process to receive incoming contacts and distribute those appropriately amongst agents associated with the contact center. This entry process is often complex and time consuming. This invention allows users of the contact centre to reach a particular agent without undergoing the entry process. This is achieved without compromising security or giving away details about the agents.

Abstract: A method for creating and accessing a graphical user interface in the overscan area outside the area of the display normally utilized by the common operating systems. This normal display area is generally known as the “desktop”. The desktop serves as a graphical user interface to the operating system. The desktop displays images representing files, documents and applications available to the user. The desktop is restricted in the common environments to a predetermined set of resolutions (e.g., 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768) as defined by VGA and SVGA standards. Displayable borders outside this area are the overscan area.

Abstract: Described is a novel process for preparing dihydromyrcenol defined according to the structure: ##STR1## or the acetate thereof comprising the steps of: (i) hydrogenating .alpha.-pinene to form .alpha.-pinane;(ii) pyrolizing the resulting .alpha.-pinane to form a mixture of hydrocarbons including dihydromyrcene (or, in the alternative, forming substantially the same mixture of hydrocarbons by other well known means);(iii) reacting the resulting pinane pyrolyzate or like mixture with hydrogen chloride gas in the presence of an acid catalyst, e.g., Lewis acid or protonic acid, to form a mixture of tertiary chlorides; then(iv) reacting the mixture of tertiary chlorides with water or acetic acid int he presence of a hydroxylation catalyst defined according to the formula:M.sub.P X.sub.Qwherein M represents an element selected from the group consisting of Zn, Ca, Mg, Mn and Co; wherein X represents O or an anion, e.g.