Abstract: An augmented reading system distributes electronic content related to paper documents. A user reading a paper document captures an image of a page of the paper document via a computing device communicatively coupled to the augmented reading system. The augmented reading system receives the image and correlates the image to electronic documents to identify the paper document. The augmented reading system may perform an image-based comparison or a character-based comparison to correlate the image with electronic documents. Additional electronic content related to the identified document is retrieved and delivered to the computing device of the user. Accordingly, the augmented reading system provides a bridge between paper documents and digital content and services.

Abstract: A content management system receives a plurality of topics extracted from documents stored by the system. Pairings between the topics are generated, where a pairing between two topics is generated responsive to the two topics appearing in proximity to one another in one or more of the documents. A complexity of each received topic is also determined. The content management system generates a progression of the topics based on the complexity of the topics and the pairings between the topics. The progression comprises a sequential ordering of paired topics, in which a topic in the ordering has a higher complexity than a preceding topic. Responsive to a user of the content management system accessing content associated with a topic in the progression, a next topic in the progression is recommended to the user.

Abstract: A grip interface is used to provide information about a user to a range of connected devices and applications based on the users' interactions with the grip. By embedding into the grip an array of sensors for motion, health, environmental and other data using embedded microcontroller network technology, and focusing on the grip as the interface between the physical and virtual worlds, applications and services to existing grip-based devices are enabled. Applications for the grip include as sports, fitness equipment, health monitoring, activity tracking, coaching, physical therapy, mobility aide and virtual entertainment, among others.

Abstract: A device for localizing a position on a part includes a support to receive the part, a bushing movably mounted with respect to the support, a removable localization member to be inserted into the bushing, and a blocking device to fix the bushing with respect to the support and to maintain it in position.

Abstract: An online educational publishing platform generates an effective grade point average for respective users of the platform by aggregating data describing educational activities of the users. The educational activity data includes users' interactions with pages of content distributed by the online educational platform, as well as data retrieved from user profiles of the users and external databases. The educational activity data is filtered into a plurality of categories and scored based on scoring metrics associated with the categories. Using the scored user activity data, the publishing platform generates the effective grade point averages. Each user may have multiple eGPAs whose value depends on how the eGPA was generated. Accordingly, an eGPA provides a quantitative representation of a student's academic engagement, achievements, and experiences.

Abstract: This application discloses performing a static timing analysis on a circuit design with an unbalanced clock tree, for example, to determine data arrival timing and clock arrival timing at multiple clock-driven circuits in a circuit design, and then performing clock tree synthesis on the circuit design to initially balance the unbalanced clock tree based, at least in part, on the data arrival timing relative to the clock arrival timing at the multiple clock-driven circuits. The clock tree after initial balancing includes a clock signal path configured to provide a clock signal to each of the multiple clock-driven circuits with a new clock arrival timing that corresponds to the data arrival timing.

Abstract: A system for and method of displaying non-rectangular images in electronic content on an electronic device in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include identifying, using a template identification computing apparatus, an image shape template associated with a non-rectangular image that is part of electronic content to be displayed on the electronic device, determining, using a boundary region determination computing apparatus, a boundary region of the image shape template, placing, using an image placement computing apparatus, the non-rectangular image inside the boundary region of the image shape template and on the electronic content, flowing, using a text flow computing apparatus, text that is part of the electronic content outside and along the boundary region of the image shape template, and transmitting, using a communication computing apparatus, the electronic content along with the non-rectangular image to the electronic device via a network.

Abstract: A digital publishing platform enables users to create and organize notes associated with electronic, published documents. Sets of notes, each associated with a document, are uploaded to the publishing platform by notepad applications executing on user devices. Each set of notes has one or more notes, and each note includes a link to a location in the associated document. The publishing platform is configured to aggregate a plurality of sets of notes, combining the notes of the sets into a single set while maintaining their link to an associated document.

Abstract: An educational digital publication platform coordinates distribution of multilayered content documents to multiple devices of a user. The platform ingests content and transforms it into a form suitable for web-based publication in the form of a multilayered document while preserving page fidelity. EReading browser applications executing on user devices render layers of the multilayered content into a form readable by end users. The publishing platform authenticates or denies requests to access content on each device and manages distribution of the content to the browser applications executing on authenticated devices, thereby effectively connecting multiple devices of the same user. As the end user interacts with the content, activities are logged by the platform and reported to all the user's connected devices in order to synchronize delivery of content and services.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a system and a method for providing consistent user experience in eReading applications. The system extracts a set of attributes of browsers and platforms on which an eReading application is running. The system receives a target eReading application performance. The system adjusts behavior of the eReading application to compensate for the difference between the extracted set of attributes and the target eReading application performance.

Abstract: An education digital reading platform provides aggregation, management, and distribution of digital education content and services. The platform ingests content from a variety of content sources, transforms the content for web-based publication, and distributes the content to connected end-user devices via a network. The transformed content preserves the original page structure of the content document regardless of the original format of the content file. As the user experiences the content, the user's web browser regularly communicates with the platform for updating reading content and connected services. User-generated content such as notes are uploaded to the platform so that the user's user-generated content can be accessed from any of the user's registered devices. Moreover, the platform enables the user-generated content and other user activities to be optionally shared among friends, classmates, campus, or other groups, as part of an education social platform.

Abstract: An electronic publishing platform maps supplemental content layers associated with one or more paired target documents, such as user-generated content layers associated with the paired target documents, into a source document. The publishing platform correlates content items in the source document to content items in the paired target documents. Based on the correlation, the publishing platform generates indexes mapping the source document content items to the paired target document content items. The publishing platform uses the indexes to map supplemental content layers associated with the paired target document to the source document.

Abstract: A hollow container, for liquid, made of plastics material, includes a dome-shaped bottom integral with a body, the bottom and body have a single axis of rotational symmetry (Z), the body including a first, upper part and a second, lower part, the second, lower part being integral with the bottom, the first and second parts being connected together by an intermediate zone, the first and second parts each having a substantially concave shape, the concavity being turned towards the axis of symmetry (Z) of the body. The concave shape of the first part is approximately the same as the concave shape of the second part. The intermediate zone has a convex shape, the convexity being turned towards the axis of symmetry (Z) of the body. In a plane including the axis of symmetry of the body, the concavity and the convexity are substantially complementary.

Abstract: A method for sharing notes created in a multilayered document among users of a social network within a digital education platform is provided. In one embodiment, the digital education platform allows a user to create notes linked to a particular location in the document using a notepad application. Notes are aggregated and stored in the user's personal library on the digital education platform. When a user requests to share another user's notes and is granted access, the digital education platform retrieves the other user's notes and inserts the shared notes into the requesting user's existing notes associated with the document, based on their individual sharing attributes and metadata.

Abstract: The present invention concerns spheroidal alumina particles characterized by a BET specific surface area in the range 150 to 300 m2/g, a mean particle diameter in the range 1.2 to 3 mm and a particle diameter dispersion, expressed as the standard deviation, not exceeding 0.1, a total pore volume, measured by mercury porosimetry, in the range 0.50 to 0.85 mL/g, a degree of macroporosity within a particle of less than 30%, and in which the dispersion of the diameters of the macropores, expressed as the ratio D90/D50, does not exceed 8. The invention also concerns processes for the preparation of said particles as well as catalysts comprising said particles as a support, and their use in catalytic hydrocarbon treatment processes, in particular in a catalytic reforming process.

Abstract: An education digital reading platform provides pages of a document requested by a user, the pages including additional content layers associated with the requested content. The additional content layers including related content, user generated content, advertisement content and other services content offered by the digital reading platform. The requested content and additional content layers require processing capability on a web browser application. The amount of data associated with a page of a document may vary dramatically especially considering the additional layers of content associated with the pages. In order to permit the web browser application anticipate the processing needs associated with each page, the digital reading platform provides markers indicating a difference in processing requirements associated between two pages of a document.

Abstract: A transparent illuminated display system, typically for use in automobile race events, including a highly flexible and transparent PCB board with ultra-low profile LED's mounted to it. The flexible and transparent PCB boards can be in the shape of a single or multiple numeric or alphanumeric displays. The face of the display which would make contact with the face of a wind screen would include an adhesive element. The transparent illuminated display is mounted to a vehicle as a kind of sticker on the inside or outside of a racecar windscreen, back window and/or side windows. Each of the displays could be wired to power and data lines and illuminate the required numbers or text to show the position and other info of the car in the race.

Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method and system for tagging content for social interchange. When a user-generated post is received from a user device accessing a document from an online education platform for posting to an external social network, the system tags the user-generated post with a unique document-part identifier (ID) identifying a part of the document with which the post is associated. The document-part ID identifies the same part in both electronic and paper versions of the document. The post tagged by the document-part ID is posted to a live feed associated with the document-part ID on the external social network. User-generated posts from the live feed associated with the document-part ID on the external social network can be retrieved and displayed to the user.

Abstract: An educational course is automatically deconstructed into discrete learning units. Content related to the course that has been stored by an integrated education platform is analyzed, and distinct concepts are extracted from the content. In addition, the learning activities in which users engage while accessing integrated learning services from the platform are recorded. These activities can generally be divided into passive, active, and recall activities. By deconstructing educational courses into individual concepts, a general model of learning is then applied that connects concepts to the activities undertaken by students to learn those concepts. As a result, a model of learning is developed where courses are atomized into individual learning units, each of which comprises a concept and at least one learning activity. The learning units then can be delivered independently or aggregated as desired.