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Fibrous structures and methods for making same

Fibrous structures that exhibit a Free Fiber End Count greater than the Free Fiber End Count of known fibrous structures in the range of free fiber end lengths of from about 0.10 mm to about 0.75 mm as determined by the Free Fiber End Test Method, and sanitary tissue products comprising same and methods for making same are provided.




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Papermaking belt for making fibrous structures

A papermaking belt. The papermaking belt has a reinforcing element comprising a surface and a plurality of irregularly shaped, discrete raised portions extending from portions of the surface of the reinforcing element. The discrete raised portions are situated in an irregular pattern, wherein each of the discrete raised portions has a major axis, A, and a minor axis, B, and wherein the length of the major axis, A, is greater than or equal to the length of the minor axis, B; and a substantially continuous deflection conduit defines at least some of the discrete raised portions.




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Process for the preparation of surface-treated calcium carbonate material and use of same in the control of organic material in an aqueous medium

The present invention relates to a process for the production of a surface-treated calcium carbonate, the use of this surface-treated calcium carbonate in a process for the control of organic material in an aqueous medium, as well as to a composite of surface-treated calcium carbonate and organic material, such as a composite of surface-treated calcium carbonate and to the use of such a composite.




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Process for the preparation of surface-treated calcium carbonate material and use of same in the control of organic material in an aqueous medium

The present invention relates to a process for the production of a surface-treated calcium carbonate, the use of this surface-treated calcium carbonate in a process for the control of organic material in an aqueous medium, as well as to a composite of surface-treated calcium carbonate and organic material, such as a composite of surface-treated calcium carbonate and to the use of such a composite.




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Paper coating or binding formulations and methods of making and using same

Paper coating or binding formulations are provided that comprise aqueous copolymer emulsions including copolymers derived from one or more copolymerizable surfactants of formula I and one or more monomers. The paper coating or binding formulations can include one or more mineral fillers, coating pigments, or mixtures thereof, wherein the total weight concentration of the one or more mineral fillers, coating pigments, or mixtures thereof is 65% or higher, based on the total weight of the composition. Paper products coated with the paper coating or binding formulations, methods of making the paper coating or binding formulations, and methods of making the coated paper products are also disclosed.




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Method and apparatus for producing product from stock pulp sheet

A method of production of a product from a stock pulp sheet uses conveyor rolls to convey a stock pulp sheet to a crusher. During conveyance to the crusher, a defective part in the stock pulp sheet is detected by a detector. The detected defective part is removed from the stock pulp sheet by a remover. The stock pulp sheet from which the defective part is removed is supplied to the crusher to produce crushed pulp. The produced crushed pulp is used to produce a product in a product producer.




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Use of nanocrystaline cellulose and polymer grafted nanocrystaline cellulose for increasing retention, wet strength, and dry strength in papermaking process

The invention provides methods and compositions for improving the characteristics of paper substrates. The method involves adding to a paper substrate an NCC-polymer. NCC-polymers have unique chemical properties which result in improvements in wet strength, dry strength and drainage retention properties of the paper substrates.




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Copolymer blend compositions for use to increase paper filler content

Disclosed are methods for increasing the filler content of paper or paperboard, comprising (a) combining a heterogeneous polymer blend with a ground calcium carbonate filler; (b) combining the resulting mixture with a pulp slurry; and (c) processing the resulting slurry mixture to form a sheet of paper or paperboard. Also disclosed are methods of increasing the filler content of paper or paperboard comprising (1) combining either a heterogeneous polymer blend or a ground calcium carbonate filler with a pulp slurry, (2) combining the remaining component with the pulp slurry; and (c) processing the resulting pulp slurry mixture to form a sheet of paper or paperboard.




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Sheet manufacturing apparatus

A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a defibrating unit configured to defibrate a defibration object including at least a fiber, in air. The sheet manufacturing apparatus forms a sheet by adding quantity of heat to a defibrated material defibrated at the defibrating unit. The sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a measuring unit configured to acquire moisture amount information of the defibrated material or the defibration object, and a controller configured to control the quantity of heat to be added to the defibrated material on the basis of the moisture amount information.




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Rubber compositions for bead apex, sidewall packing, base tread, breaker cushion, steel cord topping, strip adjacent to steel cords, tie gum, and sidewall, and pneumatic tires

The present invention provides a rubber composition that improves in terms of the fuel economy of a rubber composition containing an isoprene-based rubber and also offers favorable durability and favorable processability or adhesion to steel cords, and a pneumatic tire formed from the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for a bead apex, sidewall packing, base tread, or breaker cushion, including: a specific rubber component; a specific amount of a specific carbon black; a specific amount of sulfur; and a specific amount of a compound represented by formula (I) below. The present invention also relates to a rubber composition for a steel cord topping, strip adjacent to steel cords, or tie gum, including: a specific rubber component; a specific amount of a specific carbon black; a specific amount of an organic acid cobalt salt; and a specific amount of a compound represented by the formula (I).




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Adhesive composition, adhesion method using the same, laminate and tire

The present invention provides an adhesive composition that may improve both adhesiveness to a film layer and adhesiveness to a rubber layer, and an adhesion method using the same, as well as a laminate and a tire. The adhesive composition according to the present invention includes a rubber component, at least 80 mass % of which rubber component is an epoxidized natural rubber.




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Rubber composition and tire using the same

This invention relates to a rubber composition including a polyisoprene rubber having a very high cis-1,4-bond content and having an excellent balance between dynamic properties and processability, and more particularly to a rubber composition comprising as a rubber component (A) a synthetic polyisoprene rubber having a cis-1,4-bond content of not less than 99.0%, a 3,4-bond content of not more than 0.5% and a Mooney viscosity ML1+4 (100° C.) of 20-110 and (B) a natural rubber.




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Rubber-steel hybrid cord and pneumatic radial tire (using the same)

A rubber-steel hybrid cord of the present invention is characteristically formed by twisting a plurality of sheath filaments or sheath strands around a core in which a periphery of and space surrounded by one or a plurality of core filaments or a core strand are coated or filled with a filler rubber (A) containing an adhesion promoter, thereby forming a multilayer-twist steel cord or a multi-twist steel cord, and coating an outer surface of the multilayer-twist steel cord or the multi-twist steel cord with a coating rubber (C). Further, an amount of an adhesion promoter contained in the coating rubber (C) is equal to or more than an amount of the adhesion promoter contained in the filler rubber (A).




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Tire comprising carcass reinforcement wires having different perviousnesses

A tire with a radial carcass reinforcement made up of at least one layer of metal reinforcing elements, the tire comprising a crown reinforcement itself capped radially with a tread, the tread being connected to two beads via two sidewalls. At least 70% of the metal reinforcing elements of at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement are non wrapped cables which, in what is known as the air-wicking test, display a flow rate of less than 2 cm3/min, and at least 10% of the metal reinforcing elements of the at least one layer of the carcass reinforcement are cables which, in what is known as the air-wicking test, display a flow rate of greater than 4 cm3/min.




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MAINTAINING DEPLOYMENT PIPELINES FOR A PRODUCTION COMPUTING SERVICE USING LIVE PIPELINE TEMPLATES

Techniques are presented for managing a deployment pipeline using an inheritable and extensible source code template—generally referred to as a live pipeline template (LPT). As described, live pipeline templates may be used to manage deployment pipelines which, in turn, are used to launch, maintain, and update the services and systems used to host and provide computing services.




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IDENTIFYING USER MANAGED SOFTWARE MODULES

A method for identifying user managed software modules includes: receiving a query that includes an input module name or an input address range. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the input module name or input address range of the received query is not stored in one or more data structures identifying one or more software modules that have been loaded into memory without a directed load, searching a data structure identifying software modules that have been loaded into memory via directed loads for the respective input module name or input address range.




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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXECUTION OF DISTRIBUTED WORKFLOW PROCESSES

The system provides a method and apparatus for the dynamic distribution, deployment, and configuration of optimizable code modules for use with software workflows running on a single compute device or across a network connected grid of compute devices. The system comprises one or more collections of software and data modules stored in a content catalog, conforming to a defined interface, and having metadata conforming to a schema that enables the modules to be statically or dynamically optimized by the controlling workflow and a workflow manager. The system provides a service that enables code modules to be located, deployed, configured, and updated by the controlling workflow, the workflow manager, or a remote manager.




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GENERATING AND MANAGING APPLICATIONS USING ANY NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PLATFORMS

At least one application is received from a user. The at least one application is stored on a communication platform. A catalog is received. The catalog includes at least one service. Each service of the at least one service is associated with a platform. An indication of a selection, from the user, is received. The selection comprises a first service associated with a first platform, and a second service associated with a second platform. The first service stores the at least one application from the user. The second service runs the at least one application from the user. Responsive to receiving the indication, the at least one application is deployed to the indicated first platform. Additionally, responsive to receiving the indication, a service bridge from the communication platform to the second platform is deployed. The at least one application is run, on the first platform utilizing the service bridge.




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SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECONSTRUCTING COMPLEX CUSTOM OBJECTS

A system and method is provided for reconstructing one or more collections of objects across platforms. More particularly, Java Annotations are used to assist a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) wizard in reconstructing a collection of objects. In implementation, the system and method parses the object types such that a wizard can recreate or reconstruct the collection of objects for use by a receiving service. The method includes reconstructing a collection using one or more annotations that document a base object of the collection.




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IDENTIFYING USER MANAGED SOFTWARE MODULES

A computer system for identifying user managed software modules includes program instructions for: receiving a request for a directed load of a software module into memory, wherein the request includes an address; storing the software module at the address in the received request; adding a name and an address range of the stored software module to a data structure identifying software modules that have been loaded into memory via directed loads; receiving a query that includes an input module name or an input address range; and responsive to determining that the input module name or input address range of the received query is not stored in one or more data structures identifying one or more software modules that have been loaded into memory without directed loads, searching the data structure identifying software modules that have been loaded into memory via directed loads for the respective query.




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AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF VALIDATORS TO VALIDATE DEPLOYMENT CODE USED FOR CONFIGURING SERVERS

A validation system is configured to automatically generate validators for one or more target systems. The validation system includes: a memory storing a computer process, a network interface configured to interface with the one or more target systems over a computer network, and a processor executing the computer process. The computer process is configured to parse the deployment code to identify components in deployment code, generate validator code for each identified component, and use the network interface to transmit the validator codes to the one or more target systems.




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ANALYZING DEPLOYMENT PIPELINES USED TO UPDATE PRODUCTION COMPUTING SERVICES USING A LIVE PIPELINE TEMPLATE PROCESS

Techniques are presented for managing a deployment pipeline using an inheritable and extensible source code template—generally referred to as a live pipeline template (LPT). As described, live pipeline templates may be used to manage deployment pipelines which, in turn, are used to launch, maintain, and update the services and systems used to host and provide computing services.




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Technologies for native code invocation using binary analysis

Technologies for native code invocation using binary analysis are described. A computing device for invoking native code from managed code using binary analysis receives a call from a thread executing a managed code segment to execute a native code segment. The computing device performs a binary analysis of the native code segment and generates, from the binary analysis, a complexity indicator that indicates a level of complexity of the native code segment by comparing the native code segment to at least one predefined complexity rule. Additionally, the computing device stores a status of the thread based on the complexity indicator and executes the native code segment. Other embodiments are described and claimed.




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APPLICATION PROGRAM UNINSTALLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS

Embodiments of the present application provide an application program uninstallation method and apparatus. The method comprises: receiving an uninstallation instruction for a target application program (S101); deleting a specific directory in a local device to which the target application program corresponds, according to the received uninstallation instruction (S102); extracting an identifier of the target application program (S103); searching a local pre-set directory residual database to determine whether there exist any directory data that correspond to the identifier (S104), the directory data comprising at least a directory path; if such directory data exist, deleting a directory in the local device to which the directory path found corresponds, according to the search result (S105). By applying the embodiments of the present application, when the specific directory corresponding to the uninstalled application program is deleted, other directories, other than the specific directory, to which the uninstalled application program corresponds are also deleted, so that after the uninstall of the application program is completed, file residue is avoided, and the occupation of the device storage space is reduced.




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SOFTWARE UPGRADE METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE

Embodiments of the present invention provide a software upgrade method and apparatus, and a device. The method is applied to a software upgrade of a digital television terminal and includes: obtaining a DSI table in an upgrade data stream according to location information of the upgrade data stream that is carried in an upgrade notification message, where the DSI table carries upgrade software description information; displaying the upgrade software description information and upgrade prompt information to a user if it is determined, according to the upgrade software description information, to upgrade local software; and after the user determines to upgrade software, obtaining an upgrade software mirror in the upgrade data stream, and updating the local software according to the upgrade software mirror.




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METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SOFTWARE UPDATING

A computer-implemented method includes receiving a restore command to restore a vehicle computing system (VCS) system state. The method further includes restoring a base system state to a known, functional state and obtaining a list of applications previously installed on the VCS. The method also includes for each application previously installed on the VCS, finding a version of the application compatible with the restored base system state. Also, the method includes installing the version of each application compatible with the restored base system state.




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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING SOFTWARE

A system facilitates modification or adaptation of a software object or platform, developed by a software developer, by a plurality of entities, each entity is assigned a hierarchical level, the lowest hierarchical level being assigned to a software developer and the highest hierarchical level being assigned to an end-user. At each level, when a modification or adaptation is implemented, a separate layer file or layer of a layer file is created and stored in a database. Subsequently, the changes of the respective layers are implemented in sequence according to the hierarchy, so that a higher hierarchical level's modifications that are in conflict with a setting of a lower hierarchical level replace the implementation of the lower hierarchical level's setting during runtime.




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Data flow programming of computing apparatus with vector estimation-based graph partitioning

In various embodiments, a spectral graph partitioner (“SP”) of a graph partitioning system (“GPS”) may partition a data flow graph associated with a program into a plurality of subgraphs to be used to perform analysis or debugging. The SP may generate estimated eigenvectors for a matrix representing the graph through minimization of a function on the vectors. The SP may generate multiple eigenvectors to perform the clustering in a multi-dimensional space described by the eigenvectors. The SP may refine the clustering by repeating generation of eigenvectors to describe higher-dimensional spaces and perform further clustering. The SP may also determine quality metrics for the clusters and may stop refinement based on the quality metrics. The GPS may select between utilizing the SP or utilizing one or more other partitioners based on various factors such as, for example, graph size or quality metrics. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.




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CONTINUOUS KEYBOARD RECOGNITION

Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving data indicating a location of a particular touchpoint representing a latest received touchpoint in a sequence of received touchpoints; identifying candidate characters associated with the particular touchpoint; generating, for each of the candidate characters, a confidence score; identifying different candidate sequences of characters each including for each received touchpoint, one candidate character associated with a location of the received touchpoint, and one of the candidate characters associated with the particular touchpoint; for each different candidate sequence of characters, determining a language model score and generating a transcription score based at least on the confidence score for one or more of the candidate characters in the candidate sequence of characters and the language model score for the candidate sequence of characters; selecting, and providing for output, a representative sequence of characters from among the candidate sequences of characters based at least on the transcription scores.




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ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an input device configured to accept a user's operation and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to receive a virtual desktop image transmitted by the server apparatus, display the received virtual desktop image on a screen, transmit, in a case where a second operation other than a first operation is accepted while the virtual desktop image has been displayed, operation information indicative of the second operation to the server apparatus, and display on the screen an indicator forward of the virtual desktop image, in a case where the first operation is accepted while the virtual desktop image has been displayed, the indicator being provided to change setting of hardware of the electronic apparatus.




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USER TERMINAL DEVICE, AND MODE CONVERSION METHOD AND SOUND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING VOLUME OF SPEAKER THEREOF

A user terminal apparatus is disclosed. The user terminal apparatus includes a touch screen which senses a multi gesture that is performed by using at least two fingers or other input tools, and a controller which provides an individual volume control mode by which a volume of one speaker apparatus is independently controllable with respect to a volume of the remainder of a plurality of speaker apparatuses, and which is convertible into a group volume control mode in order to combine a plurality of speaker apparatuses into a group such that volumes of the plurality of speaker apparatuses can be jointly controlled in response to the multi gesture sensed via the touch screen while the individual volume control mode is provided.




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USER INTERFACES IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM

The disclosure relates to generation of at least one second instance of a user interface presented by a first device. The first device stores data objects comprising event information associated with user interfaces presented by the first device based on data from a source of data. The first device can generate a user interface based on data from the source of data and at least one of the stored data objects. The at least one data object is communicated from the first device for use by at least one second device in generation of a second instance of the generated user interface by the at least one second device.




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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AND CONTROLLING COMPOSITE USER INTERFACE CONTROL

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of multimedia technologies and disclose methods for generating and controlling a composite user interface control and an electronic device. The method for generating a composite user interface control includes the following steps: creating at least one composite control, where the composite control includes at least two subcontrols; adding each subcontrol to the composite control; respectively setting a general attribute and a unique attribute of each subcontrol; acquiring a resource of each subcontrol and transmitting the resource to a corresponding subcontrol; and adding an event response mechanism to the composite control. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the method for generating a composite user interface control may enable a manner for generating a user interface control to be relatively simple, which facilitates control over and modification on all user interface controls or a single user interface control on a user interface.




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Mnemonic Support of Users in Guided Activity Floorplans

Methods and systems that facilitate the generation, presentation, and adaptation of an anchored information bar, associated with a guided activity floorplan or wizard, in support of assisting users as they complete the different steps of a complex task as the user employs software applications (and associated user interfaces) on their devices to go about their different activities.




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REUSE SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD

A reuse support system of an embodiment includes a display controller which displays, on a display, an image including an image of a boundary sample which serves as a reference for reuse of a facility in response to operation of a worker, an acceptor which accepts selection of a reuse mode of the facility, and a manager which manages a delivery destination of the facility based at least in part on the reuse mode of the facility selected by the acceptor.




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REUSE SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD

A reuse support system is provided. The system includes an acquisitor which acquires skill data of workers, a grantor which grants a work license to the workers based on the acquired skill data of the workers and stores the granted work license for each of the workers in a storage, and a provider which reads the work license from the storage in response to authentication operation of the workers and provides an image according to the read work license.




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USER INTERFACE CONTROL LAYOUT METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

Embodiments of this disclosure relate to the field of multimedia technologies, and disclose a user interface control layout method and an electronic devices. The user interface control layout method includes the following steps: creating a relative layout container, where the relative layout container is used to contain child controls, and the child controls are a relative layout container or a normal control; specifying an attribute of a child control for the relative layout container; generating the child control; and if the child control is a relative layout container, repeating the foregoing steps, until all the child controls in the relative layout container are normal controls. In some embodiments of this disclosure, multiple UI controls of different sizes or types may be generated one by one through layout and arrangement, and the UI controls of different sizes or types may be nested with each other, and thereby UI interfaces based on different rules can be quickly implemented to meet different requirements of various products for UI control arrangement.




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UI PRODUCING APPARATUS, UI PRODUCING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

To improve efficiency of UI production, a UI producing apparatus includes: a UI producing unit configured to allow a user to design UI screens which correspond to contents, respectively; a multi-preview executing unit configured to generate contexts for controlling the UI screens, respectively, and configured to simultaneously display previews corresponding to the UI screens, respectively, based on the contexts; a coordination unit configured to, responding to an event generated on at least one of the UI screens, provide a message, which includes information about the event, to one of the contexts corresponding to another one of the UI screens, in order to cause the UI screens to coordinate with each other; and a screen generating unit configured to modify the one of the contexts, based on the message, so as to generate the UI screens.




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RDX ENHANCEMENT OF SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING REUSABLE DATA MARKUP LANGUAGE (RDL)

Methods and systems in accordance with the present invention allow users to efficiently manipulate, analyze, and transmit eXtensible Business Reporting Language (“XBRL”) reports. They allow users to automatically build financial reports that are acceptable to governing agencies such as the IRS. In one embodiment, the reports are developed by a parser that transforms text documents into software elements containing a format with a hierarchal relationship between the software elements, and an editor that develops reports by referencing the software elements transformed from the text documents. Methods and systems in accordance with the present invention also enable reports to be automatically scheduled by gathering desired information from an accounting system, formatting the information into an XBRL document, and transmitting it to an end source. Furthermore, systems and methods in accordance with the present invention allow a user to translate an XBRL document into RDL format and use the RDL system to manipulate and analyze it.




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GENERATING LABELS FOR IMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH A USER

A method includes identifying an image associated with a user, where the image is identified as at least one of captured by a user device associated with the user, stored on the user device associated with the user, and stored in cloud storage associated with the user. The method also includes determining one or more labels for the image, where the one or more labels are based on at least one of metadata, a primary annotation, and a secondary annotation and the secondary annotation is generated by performing label expansion on at least one of the metadata and the primary annotation. The method also includes generating a mapping of the one or more labels to one or more confidence scores, wherein the one or more confidence scores indicate an extent to which the one or more labels apply to the image.




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RECOMMENDING PAGES OF CONTENT TO AN ONLINE SYSTEM USER BY IDENTIFYING CONTENT FROM RECOMMENDED PAGES TO THE USER

An online system, such as a social networking system, recommends pages of content to users. The recommendation is presented in a recommendation unit presenting one or more representations of pages to a user. Additionally, the user may interact with the recommendation unit to change representations of pages presented by the recommendation unit. A representation of a page presented by the recommendation unit includes content from one or more content items on the page selected based on interaction with the content items on the page and types of content included in content items on the page (e.g., image data, video data, destination address). Representations of different pages may differ based on the types of content included in content items selected from the different pages.




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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING REAL-TIME AND HISTORICAL DATA AND GENERATING PREDICTIVE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES

Computer implemented systems and methods are provided for generating a predictive graphical user interface. In some embodiments, a system for generating a predictive graphical user interface may comprise at least one processor configured to receive real-time and historical data associated with utilization of a facility. The at least one processor may be configured to generate, based on the real-time and historical data, instructions to display a user interface depicting a first representation of utilization of the facility at a first time. The at least one processor may be configured to receive a request to display a second representation of utilization of the facility, the request including a selection of a second time, and generate, based on the real-time and historical data, instructions to display, within the interface, a second representation of utilization of the facility, the second representation reflecting utilization at the second time, wherein the second time is a future time relative to the first time.




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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING SCREEN ON MOBILE DEVICE

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for capturing a screen on a mobile device, the method including: receiving, at the mobile device, a screen-capturing request for a current interface, where the current interface includes first data, and the first data includes personal information; and generating, according to screen-capturing request, a screen capture image for the current interface, where the first data in the current interface is replaced in the screen capture image with second data which is predefined. These embodiments avoid the need to manually mask an image by starting a dedicated image editing tool to anonymize a screen capture image, thereby significantly lowering the relatively high technical threshold of anonymization processing, reducing the error rate, and improving the modification quality of anonymization. Moreover, the replacement is directly made to the image while the screen is captured without interfering with normal use of reading.




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CONTROLLING PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an information processing apparatus having a display device is provided. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to determine a format to display at least one setup item, which is required in order to accomplish a predetermined process, in the display device between an icon format, in which the at least one setup item is displayed in a figurative image containing a symbolic figure representing the at least one setup item, and a list format, in which the at least one setup item is displayed in a textual image containing text describing the at least one setup item. The computer readable instructions further cause the computer to control the display device to display the at least one setup item in the determined format.




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SIMULTANEOUS INPUT SYSTEM FOR WEB BROWSERS AND OTHER APPLICATIONS

In a computing environment having a multiple input detection system including a detector that detects and transmits multiple simultaneous user inputs from different users at a same time, a method for processing inputs from different users across multiple application windows of one or more applications displayed on a single display of a user interface, resulting in a multi-user graphical user interface (GUI), the computing environment running an operating system (OS) designed to run with a single user GUI, the method including determining, in a primary application, separate from the OS, that a first user input corresponds to a first window and a second user input corresponds to a second window, the primary application sending the first and second user inputs to first and second secondary applications that run in parallel with the primary application, the first and second secondary applications being designed to run with the OS.




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Methods and Systems for Managing Multiple Communication Sessions from a Single On-Screen User Interface

An exemplary communication session management system concurrently presents a plurality of session icons within a single on-screen user interface, each session icon representative of a respective communication session and configured to visually indicate a session status of the respective communication session. The communication session management system further detects a user action performed by a user with respect to one of the plurality of session icons, modifies a communication session in response to the user action, and graphically indicates the modification of the session status of the communication session. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.




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SOUND OBJECT CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON ADDITIONAL IMAGE OBJECT

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for controlling a sound object based on an additional image object. A sound object controlling method includes displaying image objects synchronized with a plurality of sound objects, respectively, on a display; and controlling a sound object synchronized with an image object selected by a user from among the image objects displayed on the display. The sound object includes metadata that includes playback location information of the sound object on a specific space, sound level information of the sound object, and display location information of the image object synchronized with the sound object on the display.




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Opening apparatus for a door that has an outer panel, a motor vehicle and a motor vehicle door with such an opening apparatus

A door (200) of a motor vehicle has an outer panel (100) and an opening apparatus. The opening apparatus has a door handle (30) and a door lock (20) with a lock barrel (10). The lock barrel (10) and the door handle (30) are arranged completely on the inner side of the outer panel (100) of the door (200).




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Lock apparatus and method

Lock assembly and method of coding and recoding locks. Some embodiments of a lock include a housing, a lock cylinder, a plurality of tumblers, a plurality of codebars, and a sidebar. Some embodiments of a lock include a housing, a lock cylinder, a plurality of tumblers, a plurality of code blocks, a sidebar, and a codebar.




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Adjustable latch assembly

A method of setting a gap or margin between an edge of a decklid and a vehicle surface includes providing a powered cinching latch assembly including a powered actuator that moves a striker member between a presented position and a fully cinched position. The cinched position of the striker is adjusted to provide an acceptable gap or margin between an edge of the decklid and an adjacent vehicle surface.