Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate a coordination between QAM and adaptive bitrate content delivery. Location information associated with a device may be utilized to identify and retrieve advertisements or alternate content for placement into a stream that is carrying requested content. Advertisement or alternate content may be placed into a stream based on retrieved placement information. The placement information may be resolved from one format to another depending upon a specific mode of delivery that is selected for delivering the stream to a media device.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a manifest presentation description for a media presentation. The manifest presentation description includes an opportunity that requires resolution to determine supplemental content for the opportunity. A request to resolve the opportunity is sent where information for the supplemental content that is received from the request is inserted in an instance of the media presentation description. The method stores the information for the supplemental content in association with an identifier for the opportunity. An update to the manifest presentation description is received where the update includes the opportunity. The method retrieves the information for the supplemental content that was stored in association with the identifier for the opportunity and inserts the information for the supplemental content into the instance of the update to the manifest presentation description.

Abstract: A method and system for manipulating a manifest is disclosed. A server receives a smart appliance a request for a manifest corresponding to a session identifier. The server retrieves from a session server a session manifest based on the session identifier. The server adjusts a session offset based on a difference in a session length represented by the session manifest from a session length represented by a previous session manifest corresponding to the session. When the session manifest comprises an address of an ad break, the server identifies in a cache at least one advertisement to be inserted into the session and replaces at least one address corresponding to at least one segment of the at least one advertisement in the session manifest based on the difference. The server transmits the session manifest to the smart appliance.

Abstract: A device that can be used to place lines on structures adjacent to a corner. The device includes an L-shaped body that has two sections that intersect each other at a right angle. A chalk-depositing roller is rotatably and movably mounted on each section and deposits chalk on a surface as the device is moved. The corner of a building is accommodated adjacent to the right angle of the L-shaped body.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for marking the path along the ground of a rolling wheel, comprising: a container having a perimeter, and a single opening along the perimeter for dispensing a marking substance contained within the container, and a sliding gate covering the opening, the gate slidable from a closed position in which it fully covers the opening, to open positions wherein progressively more of the opening is exposed, to adjust the delivery of the marking substance through the opening. The device is mounted to the outside of the wheel so that it rotates with the wheel, the container thereby dispensing the marking substance by gravity when the container opening is rotated by the wheel rotation to a position in which the substance can fall from the container.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for systematic marking for a member placement or nailing schedule used in the construction industry specific and system marking in general. The use of a roller wheel with an outer circumference dimension with incorporated use of marking felt tip pens projecting past the roller wall to deposit said marks when rolled along a building member for placement of studs, floor systems or roof members at equally spaced intervals.

Abstract: A therapeutic tension applying apparatus for applying tensile stress on a persons neck and spine while traveling, the apparatus is attachable to a vehicle seat or a mounting surface such as a ceiling within a vehicle. The apparatus provides adjustable, variable tension for the user and further includes a break-away-means which allows detachment of the apparatus from a chin strap or pad so as not to endanger the user, such as in the case of an accicent.

Abstract: A construction layout marker has two marker wheels (1 and 2) positioned in tandem on a wheel frame (3) with a handle frame (6) slanted upwardly from the front marker wheel (1). The two marker wheels are positioned a select distance apart and caused to rotate equally with a rotation equalizer (20-23) to coordinate selective marking with both marker wheels. A pivot marker fork (8) in combination with a wheel position marker (45, 46) provide accurate measurement and marking from a desired starting point. Automatically adjustable roller guides (25-31) at each side provide accurate distancing from edges (24) of surfaces (14) being marked. A brake (32) operated from the handle frame (6) holds the tandem marker wheels in fixed marker relationship for transferring marking indicia to parallel or offset construction surfaces and members. Non-slip surfaces (54) for different types of construction materials are positional on the marker wheels. Ink cartridges with felt marker edges are positional in each wheel.

Abstract: An apparatus for marking a cloth or other material for the precise placement of stitches in a quilt. The apparatus includes a handle portion having extended therefrom a stem or elongated bar which includes a means for containing a marking medium such as ink or chalk and a wheel rotatably connected to the end of the stem, the wheel having a series of spaced points thereon, the points communicating with the marking medium such that as the wheel is rolled across the cloth the spaced pointed portions of the wheel mark the cloth in a manner that shows the placement of stitches thereon. A spacer bar is provided adjacent the wheel for spacing the wheel a precise distance from the edge of the material. The marking means includes a well and, in an alternative embodiment, may include ink or chalk cartridges placed therein for providing the ink or chalk to the wheel. The handle is angled from the stem such that it provides an easy operation of the pointed wheel across the cloth.

Abstract: A marking device has a wheel to be rolled along a work piece to be marked into increments, and felt-tip markers distributed along the circumference of the wheel. The rim of the wheel carries one group of holders spaced at 90.degree. apart, and another group of holders spaced at 120.degree. apart. Each holder can receive a marker or not, so the spacings to be marked are variable.

Abstract: A first body part having a rubber rim wheel and a second body part having a rubber rim wheel are interconnected by a vertical hinge. The first body part has a pencil holder between its wheel and the hinge and the wheels have distance measurement scales. An angle measurement scale is provided for the hinge.

Abstract: A spool of pervious material impregnated with a marking medium, such as ink, is carried within a drum. The material extends from the spool through a passageway in the drum, such a segment of the material extends longitudinally along the exterior surface of the drum. As the drum is rolled along a surface, marks are made at predetermined, regularly spaced intervals. The supply of marking medium is replenished by drawing a successive segment of material from the spool.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for marking beams for the placement of studs, rafters and joists. The invention uses three instruments for measuring, aligning and marking. The first and simplest instrument is a tee-square instrument which requires independent measuring to determine the desired framing position. At the desired position, ink pads are pressed against the beam to mark the location. The ink pads protrude from a blotter head assembly which releasably attaches through a neck to a refillable ink cartridge. Single center distances of regular and uniform spacing are marked with an instrument having blotter head assemblies removably mounted through the periphery of a wheel at even fractions of the circumference. The wheel is rotably mounted on an axle to which a handle is attached and the wheel has gripping teats which insure the accurate translation from circumferential to linear distances.

Abstract: A marking device has a cylindrical housing journalled to an extended arm. The cylindrical housing has an outer peripheral surface whose circumference preferrably corresponds to a standard linear distance that is normally encountered in the building industry. The peripheral surface has at least one marking element extending radially from it so that as the cylindrical housing is rotated over a workpiece, the marking element leaves a mark on the workpiece that serves as a centerline measurement for the accurate alignment and placement of building components on the workpiece. The extended arm of the device includes a movable guide that may be extended radially beyond the peripheral surface of the cylindrical housing for guiding the marking device as it is moved along the workpiece or that may be retracted radially from its extension beyond the peripheral surface so that the marking device may be used on an extended planar surface without the guide interfering with the travel of the device over the planar surface.