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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7577718 | Adaptive dissemination of personalized and contextually relevant information An information dissemination system identifies the interests of a user from information derived from various sources, such as, by way of example, the user's calendar entries, emails, World Wide Web (web) usage information, documents, enterprise resource planning (ER... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7464151 | Network centric application failover architecture A high availability data store system is provided. The system includes data centers, each data center including a data store, host computers, and application instances executing on the host computers. Each host computer routes client requests to the application inst... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461154 | Communication arrangement between virtual routers of a physical router A virtual router (VR) communication arrangement enables services on different VRs executing on the same physical router to communicate without utilizing or substantially consuming communication resources, such as a network protocol stack and physical interfaces, of ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7454491 | Method and system for efficiently transferring a self-defined non-contiguous message in a one-sided communication model A method and system for transferring noncontiguous messages group including assembling a set of data into a series of transmission packets, packaging a description of the layout of the transmission packets into description packets and then places each description pa... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7447729 | Funding forecast in a data storage infrastructure for a communication network A data storage infrastructure is disclosed for a communication network that produces network data. The data storage infrastructure will be modified through a series of projects. The data storage infrastructure comprises data storage systems that store the network da... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447768 | Categorizing, classifying, and identifying network flows using network and host components Network flows are identified by analyzing network traffic and network host information. The network host information may be collected by network host monitors associated with network hosts. Network traffic and network host information are evaluated against network f... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7441009 | Computer system and storage virtualizer The computer system is capable of setting centralized modules so as to make most of access requests to a virtual storage unit correspond to physical storage units assigned to a centralized module, which receives the requests. The computer system comprises a storage ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441047 | Device specific pagination of dynamically rendered data The present invention relates to a system and methodology that provides for adjusting content that is to be received and displayed by a device so that the content is meaningful to a recipient. The invention provides for rendering of variable-sized pages of dynamic c... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441013 | Systems and methods for automatically accessing internet information from a local application on a handheld internet appliance Systems and methods for automatically accessing Internet information and local applications from another local application on a handheld Internet appliance is provided. The systems and methods of the present invention consist of a software solution that enables user... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437466 | Wire protocol for a media server system A wire protocol provides message formats for creating multiple network connections between a media server and a client. These multiple network connections may include a control link connection for passing control information and a data funnel connection for passing ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437462 | Method for zoning data storage network using SAS addressing A method of zoning a fabric-attached (SAS) storage network. For each target attached to an expander, the expander maintains a list of SAS addresses of initiator devices that are permitted access to that's ports target devices. Configuration and management of zones m... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437435 | Automatically setting method and related system An automatically setting method and related system for a network communications system having a remote console is disclosed. The method provides a network serving equipment having a management controller, and connects a network serving equipment through the network ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437426 | Detecting and correcting node misconfiguration of information about the location of shared storage resources A group of shared-storage resources are being maintained as replicas by the nodes of a cluster. Each node in the cluster maintains a set of pointers to the members of the group. As membership changes, the set of pointers should be changed accordingly. For various, r... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428582 | Semantic interface for publishing a web service to and discovering a web service from a web service registry A system and method for publishing a web service to a web service registry retrieving a web service description. A schema associated with the web service description is acquired, and publication metadata relating to the web service is extracted from the schema. A we... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7418495 | System and method for activity monitoring and reporting in a computer network A system for monitoring user activity in an instant messaging session on a computer network periodically sends an activity message to other participants in the instant messaging session if the user has actively entered data during a first predetermined time interval... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409451 | Switching between connectivity types to maintain connectivity Techniques are provided for leveraging narrowband connectivity (such as dial-up communications or other types of low bandwidth communications) to provision or configure broadband connectivity between a broadband access provider and a broadband device, such as a DSL ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401147 | Method and system for regulating the dispatching of messages for requestors A method and system in an application service provider (“ASP”) system for regulating the dispatching of event notification messages that generate return contacts. The ASP system is connected to various requestor systems and receives from those systems requests t... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392284 | Meta-application architecture for integrating photo-service websites for browser-enabled devices A method and system for integrating web photo-services for a browser-enabled device is disclosed. The method and system include providing a server that communicates with the device over a network, and associating images stored on at least one photo-service site with... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392283 | Method and system for supplying products from pre-stored digital data in response to demands transmitted via computer network The present invention relates to a digital data duplication system that utilizes one or more computer networks to automate the process from order-taking to delivery, eliminating the need for human supervision. Customers enter requests for a given number of machine-r... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392305 | Dynamic connection service category changes An apparatus dynamically changes a connection service category for a soft permanent virtual circuit (SPVC). The apparatus includes a first interface, a second interface, a control interface receiving a command including a new connection service category for an exiti... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389325 | Bridge for linking two publish/subscribe message brokers There is disclosed a method, computer program and bridge for linking two publish/subscribe message brokers together. A subscription is made to receive request messages on one or more topics from a first broker. A subscription is made to receive all messages publishe... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386585 | Systems and methods for storage area network design Systems and methods for designing storage area network fabric. Preferably included are an arrangement for collecting user requirements on data flows to be supported by the fabric, an arrangement for grouping the data flows into flow groups according to at least one ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383344 | Remote encoder system and method for capturing the live presentation of video multiplexed with images A system for use with a speaker providing audio and video in conjunction with images being provided by a podium computer responsive to the speaker as part of a live multimedia presentation. A device provides video signals and audio signals wherein the video signals ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383327 | Management of virtual and physical servers using graphic control panels A system, method and computer program product for providing centralized management of multiple Virtual Execution Environments (VEEs) implemented on multiple physical servers. Each VEE is a virtual server. Multiple virtual servers of various types and formats are imp... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379992 | Network system and method for reducing power consumption A method for reducing power consumption, adapted to a network system comprising a server provided with a domain name and being able to operate in a reduced power mode. When a request for the domain name is received, a wake-up signal is sent to the server for switchi... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7380012 | Wire protocol for a media server system A wire protocol provides message formats for creating multiple network connections between a media server and a client. These multiple network connections may include a control link connection for passing control information and a data funnel connection for passing ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376692 | Method and system for receiving and framing packetized data In accordance with a specific aspect of the present invention, a compressed video stream, such as an MPEG-2 video stream, is received by a transport demultiplexor, synchronized, parsed into separate packet types, and written to buffer locations external the demultip... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376712 | Method and system for remotely monitoring time variant data A system (100) and method for remotely monitoring and controlling time variant data in an industrial plant (400). The system (100) includes a local server (102) and at least one remote server (104). The local server (102) in... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373421 | Method and apparatus of preventing physical layer from establishing unsupported links Methods and apparatus for preventing unsupported links between a host device and a link partner over a network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a link control signal is employed to release the reset of the candidate PHY, place a candidate PHY of the host device in a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373369 | Advanced execution of extended floating-point add operations in a narrow dataflow A method and system for performing floating point additive arithmetic operations of long operands in a narrow dataflow. The operands include first and second floating point numbers having first and second mantissas, respectively, the second operand greater than the ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373381 | System and method for application viewing through collaborative web browsing session A collaborative Web browsing session may take place over a network, allowing the Presenter on a first computer to direct the audio and visual components of a browser on one or more second computers. The Attendee on the second computer logs into a control site comput... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373417 | Methods and systems for improving data transmission rates having adaptive protocols A machine-readable medium, a system, and an apparatus are provided for increasing a data transmission rate. A window size is established, where the window size is an indicator of an amount of data a terminal can receive. Data segments are received in accordance with... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373418 | Wire protocol for a media server system A wire protocol provides message formats for creating multiple network connections between a media server and a client. These multiple network connections may include a control link connection for passing control information and a data funnel connection for passing ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366768 | Deploying service modules among service nodes distributed in an intelligent network A method and apparatus for deploying and activating services in a communications network. In the context of a communications network that deploys service functionality by distributing managed software objects to service processing nodes, the present invention relate... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366775 | Data transmission protocol and visual display for a networked computer system An on-line multi-player virtual reality game is provided. The multi-player game system is capable of handling many simultaneous players connected to a computer system using personal computers or other gaming consoles via the Internet or other telecommunications netw... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359982 | System and method for facilitating access to content information The invention disclosed herein presents systems and methods for facilitating access to content information. The method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises receiving a request for the content information, choosing a data service provider access obj... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356556 | System and method for selecting internet media channels A system and method provide for selecting Internet media channels. Generally speaking, the selection involves choosing target channels based on user preferences. In one example embodiment, the system and method receive a user preference relating to a data item avail... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356589 | Content collection In a web service system with one or more web servers, a system and method for distributing content directly from each web server to a single computer transfers files generated on web servers to a central location for access by a system operator. If files generated b... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349944 | System and method for record and playback of collaborative communications session A collaborative communication session (“session”), as created by the presenter and witnesses by one or more users on second computers, may be recorded. The session may be replayed by a user's computer, directing the audio and visual components of the browser on ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346656 | Asynchronous, networked publication and collaborative communication system Asynchronous, networked publication and collaborative communication system and method comprise a secure website managed by one organization to which authorized members of a team can connect using an Internet browser program. News content is developed on the website ... | 03/18/2008 |
