Abstract: A kite for a system for extracting energy from the wind, the kite comprising: a body having a wing for providing lift; means for connecting the wing to a tether; and means for controlling the flight of the kite in the wind, wherein the wing is constructed with an asymmetry in a spanwise direction from a first end of the wing to a second end of the wing to provide the wing with a naturally asymmetric shape at least when in flight. The asymmetry may be provided to optimise the shape of the wing for a flight pattern in which one end of the wing has a higher speed than the other end of the wing. For example, the asymmetry may be optimised to allow the kite to follow a flight pattern resembling a circle or spiral, from the point of view of a base unit of the system.

Abstract: A retention clip assembly for connecting first and second components together. The retention clip assembly includes a male member configured to engage a female member. The male member includes a body portion with a tab extending therefrom. A terminal end of the tab includes a flange projecting laterally from a side surface. The female member includes body portion having sides defining an opening into which the tab of the male member is received. A rib of the female member is located adjacent to one of the sides defining the opening so as to form a slot being between the rib and adjacent side of the opening. The flange is constantly biased into contact with the rib when the male and female members are engaged.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for monitoring of financial institution business activity for the purpose of identifying suspicious activities. The embodiments herein described rely on monitoring business activities from many data repositories, some of which are exclusive to financial institution. By monitoring financial business activity for the purpose of identifying suspicious activity or behaviors, bank fraud or other criminal/wrongful activities can be mitigated or otherwise avoided. In addition, the identification of suspicious activities serves to identify the individual(s) associated with the suspicious activities and/or other information related to the individual(s), such as physical location, electronic location, telephone number and the like.

Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a control processor programmed to initiate an optional lock function. This lock function enables a player a) to “lock” the machine through a touchscreen data entry or button data entry upon entry of a code prior to activating the lockout and while the machine contains credits, and b) to unlock the machine through data entry of the same code.

Abstract: A method for maintaining the security of transmitted embedded personalized messages sent over a communication network includes receiving messages directed to recipients having recipient destination descriptors and determining whether a message includes a personalized portion, with the personalized portion directed to one or more of the original recipients of the message. The personalized portion includes identifying designators, which are associated with one or more recipient destination descriptors. Prior to performing an operation on the message, such as forwarding the message, replying to the message, copying the message to a destination location, or deleting the message, a determination is made whether to retain the personalized portion of the message. If the recipient of the personalized portion of the message does not want the personalized portion included in any operation performed on the message, it is deleted prior to performance of the operation.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for enabling transmission of an email message to one recipient and a portion of the email message to at least another recipient. The system includes an email creation module or email editor module configured to enable one to compose an email message for transmission to at least one remote server. The system further includes a parsing module configured to parse the composed email message into at least two components, where a first component of the at least two components includes the entire email message and at least a second component of the at least two components includes a portion of the email message. The system further includes a transmission module configured to transmit the first component and at least the second component to at least two different email addresses corresponding to at least two different recipients. The at least two different email addresses can belong to two different email aliases or distribution lists.

Abstract: Empirically derived models are used to relate user perception to objectively measurable characteristics, under a criterion of nearly perfect co-variance between predicted MOS values and the variations in the values of the objectively measurable characteristics. In the example context of evaluating packet switched telephony service, the present invention eliminates the need to perform subjective tests to characterize each combination of codec type and transmission protocol.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for monitoring perceived quality of a packet-switched voice service in a network. The method includes the step of receiving a packetized voice communication via the packet-switched voice service. At least one objective measurement is obtained from the received packetized voice communication. User perceived quality of voice data is derived from the at least one objective measurement. The user perceived quality of voice data is provided to a user. The steps of receiving, obtaining, deriving, and providing are performed in real-time.

Abstract: An access network is built using Ethernet or IEEE 802.3 technology. The network comprises a plurality of terminals, a hierarchy of concentrator stages and a DHCP server. On startup of the terminals, DHCP discover messages are sent to the server which include the terminals' MAC addresses. These addresses are cached at the concentrators against the ports on which they are received. Thus, unknown MAC addresses are only sent upstream. To avoid the network being flooded with broadcast messages, any time a client PC uses ARP to find the MAC address of any other client, the central server provides a proxy ARP function.

Abstract: A plug detector for an electronic test instrument includes an isolation transformer interposed between a jack socket and a plug detection circuit. The jack socket includes a split jack arrangement in which two halves of a jack socket are connected to opposite ends of a primary winding of the isolation transformer. When the primary winding is loaded due to the insertion of a jack plug, the primary winding is shorted and the impedance of a secondary winding changes. The detection circuit detects the change in impedance in the secondary winding and generates a detection signal to indicate plug detection.

Abstract: A method for lengthening atretic segments of a patient by electromagnetic bougienage to facilitate subsequent primary anastomosis without tension. In the preferred method, two magnetic bougies are inserted into the atretic segments so that the magnetic bougies are positioned at the closed ends of the segments. An annular electromagnet is placed around the patient's body and is cycled on and off to urge the magnetic bougies towards each other over a period of time in order to lengthen the atretic segments. The magnetic bougies are then withdrawn after which primary anastomosis is accomplished.