baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent GB-2373694-A (GB)
Title: Use of beacon message in a network for classifying and discarding messages
Inventor: KADANSKY MIRIAM C
IPC: H04L12/18
Filed: 2000-11-17
Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying a data message that is eligible for discard. A beacon node periodically transmits a beacon message to a plurality of client nodes communicatively couple via a network. Each beacon message includes a beacon sequence number and preferably, the beacon sequence numbers are authenticated by the beacon node. The client nodes, upon receipt of the beacon messages, verify the authenticity of the respective received beacon sequence numbers and generate a local sequence number derived from the received beacon sequence number. When one client in the session has data to transmit to another client in the session, the sending client assembles a data message and inserts its local sequence number in the data message prior to transmission of the data message to the other client nodes in the session. The client nodes receiving the data message discard the data message if their respective local sequence number at the time of receipt of the data message exceeds the local sequence number inserted in the data message by a predetermined value. In one embodiment, the beacon node generates sequence numbers at a periodic interval P but only transmits 1 out of every m beacon sequence numbers to the client nodes in the session. The client nodes each set a local sequence counter equal to the beacon sequence number upon receipt of the beacon message and thereafter, increment the local sequence counter periodically at interval P. The local sequence counter value is employed as the local sequence number in each client node.
Patent GB-2373674-A (GB)
Title: Telephony-based system and method for producing a presentation
Inventor: CHEN SHENCHANG ERIC
IPC: H04M3/56
Filed: 2000-07-27
Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed comprising: saving a visual presentation including a set of slides and a unique presentation identification code ("ID") transmitted by a user; receiving a call from the user over a telephony network, the user identifying the visual presentation using the unique ID; and linking a first slide in the set of slides with audio transmitted by the user over the telephony network.
Patent GB-2392592-A (GB)
Title: Speech synthesis
Inventor: MOORE ROGER KENNETH
IPC: G10L13/08
Filed: 2002-08-27
Abstract: A speech synthesizer such as a text-to-speech system has an output stage for converting a phonetic description to an acoustic output. The output stage (224) includes a database of recorded utterance segments (312), in which the output stage: a) converts the phonetic description to a plurality of time-varying parameters; b) interprets the parameters as a key for accessing the database to identify an utterance segment in the database; and c) outputs the identified utterance segment. If there is no corresponding utterance segment in the database, the parameters are passed to a waveform synthesizer (314) to generate an output signal.
Patent GB-2398204-A (GB)
Title: Setting communication types for a communication session
Inventor: WOLAK STEPHEN JAN
IPC: H04L29/08
Filed: 2003-02-04
Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile communications network having an Internet-Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Once a SIP session has been established between two or more end points or users, communication can be carried out using a variety of different protocols, i.e. for streaming audio or video. A method of establishing a communication session between a first terminal 1 supporting a first plurality of communication types, and a second terminal 3 supporting a second plurality of communication types is disclosed. The method includes determining at least one type common to both terminals, enabling communication between said terminals by one of said common communication types, and allowing the communication type to be changed to another of said common types during the session.
Patent GB-2386964-A (GB)
Title: Tunnel display system
Inventor: TURNER DAVID
IPC: G09F19/22
Filed: 2003-03-03
Abstract: An underground train motion picture system having a continuous stream of an arranged image so that when passed at speed, for example by a train, the image gives the appearance of flowing motion, and therefore has a dynamic effect. The images may be undulating lines, coloured bands or flash effect forms.
Patent GB-2388450-A (GB)
Title: Relevance feedback for advanced text search
Inventor: LENO DOUG
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2003-04-29
Abstract: An artificial neural network (ANN) based search method for a document retrieval system enhances and assists the task of specifying the required information in a query by combining the user's original query 24 with feedback information previously provided by expert users performing a similar search. An expert user submits a query, 21, and the system returns a list of ordered documents selected by the system as relevant to the query, 22. If the expert user determines that one or more of the selected documents are relevant, the documents are marked as such, 23. When a similar or related query is initiated by a non-expert user 24, the system enhances or supplements the original query with previously identified terms and concepts and looks for statistical associations between the query and documents previously identified by the expert users, 25. The non-expert user is then presented with an enhanced results list of documents, 26, preferably ordered based on their relevancy according to the statistical associations or as previously determined by the expert users.
Patent GB-2402509-A (GB)
Title: Syntax evaluation and amendment of text advertising a product/service
Inventor: PARRY GLYN
IPC: G06F17/27
Filed: 2003-06-05
Abstract: A word processing program comprising a syntax evaluation and amendment means 3 adapted to identify predetermined syntax arrangements in inputted text 13, and to provide alternative syntax arrangements 9,17 for the inputted text, characterised in that the inputted text is intended to advertise, promote or market goods or services, and the alternative syntax arrangements are adapted to enhance the capability of the inputted text to promote said goods or services.
Patent GB-2391003-A (GB)
Title: Steer-by-wire steering wheel positional initialising
Inventor: ZHAO ZILAI
IPC: B62D6/00
Filed: 2003-06-17
Abstract: A system 10 for initialising a steering wheel 12 in a steer-by-wire vehicle comprises a steering wheel angle sensor 16 and a controller 20. A corrected steering wheel 12 position is calculated based upon the difference between the angle of the steering wheel 12 and a road wheel angle 22. The controller 20 calculates a minimum correction angle and controls a torque feedback actuator 18, which rotates the steering wheel 12 through the correction angle at a low speed. A warning signal is issued in response to any resistance to angular correction, including interference from the driver.
Patent GB-2392178-A (GB)
Title: A downhole flow control mechanism for lateral wellbore completions
Inventor: JOHNSON CRAIG D
IPC: E21B43/08
Filed: 2002-01-21
Abstract: A completion assembly for deployment within a wellbore which comprises a base pipe 28 having a central cavity 31 enclosed by a sidewall, the sidewall having a plurality of holes 30 therethrough and a sleeve 44 circumferentially adjacent and rotatably attached to the base pipe, the sleeve having at least one opening 48 therethough wherein the rotation of the sleeve relative to the base pipe aligns or misaligns the holes and the at least one opening to vary the fluid flow between the wellbore and the central cavity. The completion assembly may comprise a number of flow sections 26, each having a base pipe and a sleeve. The size of the holes in each section may vary along its length and the number of holes per unit area may differ between flow sections. Each section may have a filter 32 such as a sand screen 34. Also disclosed are various flow sections whose flow characteristics differ but cannot be varied downhole.
Patent GB-2406822-A (GB)
Title: A mould for a plastics laminate for a glazed door
Inventor: COSTELLO TIMOTHY FRANCIS
IPC: E06B3/72
Filed: 2003-10-11
Abstract: A mould for a plastics laminate 11, 12 for a glazed door comprises formations 16 on the surface of the mould, shaped so as to provide a removable panel 17 in the laminate, where removal of the panel results in an opening for the fitting of a glazed section. The formations are shaped such that in use removal of the panel leaves a smooth edge 18 to the opening with no cut surface visible when viewed from the front 14 of the laminate. The panel is joined to the smooth edge to the rear 21 of the moulded laminate, such that the panel can be removed by a cutting action across the rear surface of the laminate, rather than through the thickness of the laminate. Also included is a glazed door constructed from two sheets of thermoplastics laminate with a core 13 material.
Patent GB-2399086-A (GB)
Title: Human zinc finger containing gene MDZ4
Inventor: SHANNON MARK
IPC: A61K39/00
Filed: 2002-07-30
Abstract: The invention provides isolated nucleic acids that encode MDZ4, and fragments thereof, vectors for propagating and expressing MDZ4, nucleic acids, host cells comprising the nucleic acids and vectors of the present invention, proteins, protein fragments, and protein fusions of the MDZ4, isoforms, and antibodies thereto. The invention further provides transgenic cells and non-human organisms comprising human MDZ4 nucleic acids, and transgenic cells and non-human organisms with targeted disruption of the endogenous orthologue of the human MDZ4 gene. The invention further provides pharmaceutical formulations of the nucleic acids, proteins, and antibodies of the present invention, and diagnostic, investigational, and therapeutic methods based on the MDZ4 nucleic acids, proteins, and antibodies.
Patent GB-2411719-A (GB)
Title: Hydration monitor
Inventor: MARSH LEON THOMAS LEE
IPC: A61B5/00
Filed: 2004-03-04
Abstract: A hydration monitor includes a thermopile temperature sensor 65 for measuring a subject's core body temperature and a processor within a wristwatch 70. The processor is arranged to accept measurements of the subject's tympanic membrane from the temperature sensor 65 and calculate a hydration level in dependence on changes in the measured core body temperature. A method of measuring hydration is disclosed using change in core body temperature, a subjects weight and applying ambient temperature compensation.
Patent GB-2396533-A (GB)
Title: Cellular phone with data protection program
Inventor: HOSOI TOSHIKATSU
IPC: H04M1/72445
Filed: 2002-12-20
Abstract: A cellular phone is described having a data protection system for transferring data to be protected to a non-volatile memory of the cellular phone. In examples described, the system comprises: detecting means 12 for detecting that a residual amount of a battery 13 has become equal to/lower than a predetermined value; and control means 3 for checking a difference between data to be currently protected and past data and transferring the data to be protected to the non-volatile memory only when a difference of data is determined. Such a system can assist in preventing data loss caused by loss of battery power in the cellular phone.
Patent GB-2397976-A (GB)
Title: A mobile communication device
Inventor: USUI HISAYOSHI
IPC: H04M1/72412
Filed: 2001-04-17
Abstract: A mobile communication device 100 comprises a portable telephone main block 400 and mechanically separate from the portable telephone main block a terminal portion 500, for performing short range wireless data communication with the portable telephone main block. The main block may have a first antennae 1 for radio communication and a second antennae 7 for the short range communication wit the terminal portion. The main block may have a first wireless section 3 coupled to the first antennae and a second wireless section 6 coupled to the second antennae and a first control section 51 coupled to the first and second wireless sections. The first and second wireless sections may have first and second power sources respectively, while the control section may be arranged to intermittently turn off the second power source.
Patent GB-2412894-A (GB)
Title: Decorative glazing panels and method of manufacturing same
Inventor: HOWES STEPHEN EDWIN
IPC: B44F1/06
Filed: 2004-04-05
Abstract: A glazing panel having a decorative pattern comprises a laminar insert of plastics material deformed to replicate a desired decorative pattern positioned between two opposed sheets of glass or other transparent glazing material. The deformed laminar insert has areas which lie in contact with one of the glazing sheets and areas spaced from that sheet and the other glazing sheet of the panel. The areas of the laminar insert in contact with the glazing sheet are bonded to the glazing sheet using a resin which retains a degree of flexibility when set. The spaces defined between the laminar insert and the glazing sheet are entirely filled with a hardenable resin material.
Patent GB-2396623-A (GB)
Title: Methods and derivation and propagation of undifferentiated human embryonic stem (hes) cells on feeder-free matrices and human feeder layers
Inventor: BONGSO ARIFFEEN
IPC: C12N5/02
Filed: 2002-09-27
Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of stem cell culture, in particular undifferentiated stem cell culture and to methods for derivation and propagation of such cells. More particularly, the invention relates to derivation and propagation of undifferentiated HES cells on human feeder layers and/or in the absence of a feeder layer.The human feeder layers may be selected from the group including human fetal muscle (HFM), human fetal skin (HFS), human adult fallopian tubal (HAFT) fibroblasts and human adult skin cells. They may be cultured in the presence of a suitable medium selected from the group including Human Embyonic Stem Cell (HES), Knockout (KO), or Human Feeder (HF) medium supplemented with or without human serum.
Patent GB-2401082-A (GB)
Title: Tapered shock absorbing fishing line
Inventor: PRESTON DAVID
IPC: D02G3/32
Filed: 2004-04-30
Abstract: A shock absorbing line for a fishing pole or rod comprises an elongate, generally tapered element of elastomeric material. An elastomeric material in generally liquid form is passed through an aperture to produce a filament and the cross-sectional area of the filament is caused to vary, thereby to provide said tapered element. The variation in cross-sectional area may be achieved by modulating the pressure in the elastomeric material upstream of the aperture; causing a variable force to be applied to the material leaving the aperture (e.g. by gravity or a take-off reel) or by adjusting the cross-sectional area of the aperture.
Patent GB-2402438-A (GB)
Title: A dispensing device
Inventor: EBERHARDT HEIKO
IPC: B05B1/34
Filed: 2001-05-29
Abstract: A dispensing device comprises a hollow- cap 7 which includes an actuating button 6 and which contains a spray conduit 10 communicating between a container 2, which includes a reservoir for a product, and a product dispensing nozzle 3 of the cap, the spray conduit 10 being spaced from the hollow cap 7, wherein a rib 5, 16 is provided in the region of the spray conduit 10. The rib 5, 16 is directed radially away from the spray conduit 10 and functions as a sound generator when the product is dispensed.
Patent GB-2417103-A (GB)
Title: Natural language translation system
Inventor: LANCASTER MARK
IPC: G06F17/27
Filed: 2004-08-11
Abstract: A computer-implemented method for use in natural language translation. The method involves attaching pieces of linguistic information to two or more source language elements in a source material in a first natural language. The pieces of linguistic information are matched to one or more predetermined parse rules. Associations are then formed between the two or more source language elements to form terminology candidates, which are then presented to human reviewers. Terminology candidates are subsequently validated by a user, becoming validated terminology which is then translated into a second, different, natural language, becoming translated terminology. The translated terminology can then be loaded into a machine-translation dictionary which can be used during subsequent machine-assisted translations.
Patent GB-2404248-A (GB)
Title: Optical configuration and method for differential refractive index measurements
Inventor: ATKINSON ROBERT C
IPC: G01N21/27
Filed: 2003-03-06
Abstract: An optical configuration (210) for differential refractive index measurements of a test sample (TS) relative to a reference sample (RS) comprises an optical path (OP) along which an illumination beam travels to simultaneously illuminate a pair of optical interfaces (230A, 230B) on opposite sides of a meridional plane corresponding to the test sample (TS) and reference sample (RS) respectively. Partial beams leaving the optical interfaces (230A, 230B) are redirected by optical means (240) to illuminate different segments of a linear scanned array (238) aligned in the meridional plane. The difference in location of a pair of shadowlines or a pair of resonance minimums formed by the partial beams on the array (238) provides an indication of the refractive index difterence.
Patent GB-2403915-A (GB)
Title: Game apparatus and method for the teaching basketball skills
Inventor: SLADE SANDY
IPC: A63B69/00
Filed: 2003-04-16
Abstract: A basketball skill teaching game apparatus and method for players playing in a determined order. The apparatus features a game mat (12) and a plurality of game squares (13) arranged sequentially thereon. Each of the game squares have an indicia designating a specific exercise to be performed. Each player moves a determined number of squares and reads the indicia from the square upon landing to communicate to fellow team to preform the exercise. The game is over when a signal is given and the team who has advanced the most squares wins.
Patent GB-2418742-A (GB)
Title: System for controlling engine crankshaft deceleration by limiting engine retarding torque
Inventor: BANTA GEORGE L III
IPC: B60W10/06
Filed: 2004-12-21
Abstract: A system for controlling engine crankshaft 14 deceleration in an internal combustion engine 12 is operable to determine whether the engine 12 is operating under low inertia conditions. The system monitors an operational state of an engine retarding device 60 for decreasing the rotational speed of the engine crankshaft 14. The system limits the retarding torque produced by the engine retarding device 60 if the retarding device is operational and the engine 12 is operating with under low inertia conditions. The system may further include a number of sensors each producing a signal indicative of a different operating condition of the engine. The sensors may be for engine speed 46, clutch status 54 or road speed 50. The engine retarding device 60 may have a number of user selectable switches 66, 68, 70, 72 one of which 66 is for activating the retarding device 60. The engine retarding device may actuate the cylinder exhaust valves of the engine.
Patent GB-2422433-A (GB)
Title: Seismoelectric and acoustic permeability determination
Inventor: SINGER JULIAN
IPC: G01V1/50
Filed: 2004-12-21
Abstract: A Method and apparatus for determining the fluid permeability of an earth formation is described. An instrument 6 comprising an acoustic source 14, 16 and acoustic 18 and electrokinetic sensors 20 is located in a borehole 4 at a site of interest. The acoustic source is fired and the resulting variations in pressure and electric field generated are measured and recorded. The Biot equations, and an equation for the streaming potential coupled to fluid displacement terms, are solved using finite element analysis to give an expected pressure waveform and electrokinetic waveform based on estimated earth formation properties. By comparison of the measured waveforms and those calculated from the equations, the actual permeability of the earth formation can be deduced.
Patent GB-2421780-A (GB)
Title: A pointing device (e.g. a joystick) with an image sensor on a movable member
Inventor: TU HSIN-HUNG
IPC: G06F3/033
Filed: 2005-03-30
Abstract: A pointing device e.g. for a computer has a rod 20 pivotally mounted on a housing 10, with an image sensor 40 on a detection portion 22 of the rod inside the housing 10. Coordinate signals are produced by comparing image variations. The housing has an upper shell 12A, and may have a bottom panel 13 with a picture or pattern formed on a flat (e.g. figs 1-3) or curved surface 15, or the shell may sit on a work surface (fig 11). A transmitter 30 of IR or visible light may be inside the housing 10, on the rod or housing (fig 2); beneath a transparent pedestal (15, fig 6); or the housing may be transparent (figs 9 and 11) or have apertures (17', fig 10) for ambient light. The sensor 40 may be a charged-coupled device (CCD), a contact image sensor (CIS), or a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS), and may have a condensing lens. The rod 20 may be mounted in a ball and socket, and may have limited movement (figs 7 and 8).
Patent GB-2416509-A (GB)
Title: Casing for hand-held power tool with inner and outer shells.
Inventor: FRAUHAMMER KARL
IPC: B23B45/16
Filed: 2005-06-29
Abstract: A power tool casing comprises an inner shell 10 and an outer shell 12, integrally formed with and connected by a plurality of webs 22. The webs define a plurality of air spaces 44, through which cooling air may circulate. The air is drawn into the casing through slots 30 via a cooling fan (not shown) driven by the tool motor (not shown). The casing may be at least partially constructed from a light metal (eg. aluminium and the inner and outer shells may be connected in at least a region associated with the drive shaft of the tool. In a particular embodiment, the power tool is a hammer drill and the above casing is located around the impact mechanism of the drill.
Patent GB-2416885-A (GB)
Title: Updating branch instruction hints during program execution
Inventor: MORRIS DALE
IPC: G06F9/38
Filed: 2005-07-12
Abstract: A program which contains static branch prediction in the form of a hint in instruction 121 (231, fig 2 and 341, fig 3) provided during the compilation of the program may be dynamically modified at runtime by a hint updater 105 (219, fig 2, 329, fig 3). Alternatively the hint may be contained in a hint-type no-op instruction (233, fig 2) combined with an indirect branch instruction (231, fig 2) and a data pre-fetch hint instruction (235, fig 2) or as a prediction hint instruction (341, fig 3). When a branch instruction is executed a prediction tracker 115 (217, fig 2; 317, fig 3) determines whether the branch was taken or not and whether this agrees with the prediction in the hint. This result is stored in memory 103 and the hint updater increments a 3 bit hint count up to a maximum (very likely to branch) or decrements it to a minimum (very unlikely to branch) and this is used in future predictions.
Patent GB-2417966-A (GB)
Title: Roller cone drill bits with optimized bearing structure
Inventor: CHEN SHILIN
IPC: E21B41/00
Filed: 2005-08-12
Abstract: A roller cone drill bit (20) includes optimally designed bearing structures (40) and cutting structures (60). The roller cone drill bit includes three cone assemblies (30) rotatably mounted on respective spindles (34) via respective bearing structures (40). Each cone assembly has a respective cutting structure (60) with a minimal moment center located along each respective axis of rotation. Each respective bearing structure (40) has a center point located proximate each respective minimal moment center.