PURPOSE: To provide an emulsion of a silicone oil or an organic oil containing crosslinked particles in droplets of the silicone oil or the organic oil which are dispersed in water. CONSTITUTION: The emulsion contains crosslinked particles obtained by crosslinking a liquid crosslinkable composition comprising (A) an organic compound having at least two aliphatic unsaturated bonds in the molecule, ...

PURPOSE: A method for inter-enterprise role-based authorization is provided to authorize and verify the authorization of transactions between enterprises over both public and private networks. CONSTITUTION: A computerized method having a process flow operating over a computer network comprising a plurality of interconnected computers and a plurality of resources, each computer including a processo...

PURPOSE: A buffering of partition tables, a file system directory structures and an individual file cluster chains in a mass storage device are provided to accelerate access to data in a large capacity memory storage peripheral computer system. CONSTITUTION: The computer system(46) for data storage is provided with a host computer having a system RAM(50) related with the computer system and a file...

PURPOSE: Provided are a phase shift mask blank and a phase shift mask which have adequate transmittance and good stability over time even when used with light sources that emit short-wavelength light. CONSTITUTION: The phase shift mask blank comprises a transparent substrate(1) and at least one layer of a phase shifter(2) thereon. The phase shifter is a film composed primarily of a fluorine-doped ...

A thin film diamond coating is grown by a plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition method. The plasma composition includes hydrogen and less than 0.7 % methane and is deposited on a substrate kept at less than 900{ C. The resulting film is characterised by its Raman spectrum with a peak width at half height of less than 10 cm -1 and by its thermal conductivity which is greater than 1000...

A method of providing insurance products and of updating those provisions. The method includes the steps of assessing a client's financial status and their insurance needs. Following this the benefits identified are presented to the client and the client chooses which benefits to adopt within their policy plan. At least some of these benefits can have different manners of paying out; these are sel...

A method for determining azimuth in well bore hole where the well is being drilled utilizing Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD) equipment, including gravitometer and magnetometer instruments in the presence of an adjacent well. Interference fields introduced by adjacent wells are modeled as a single or series of magnetic dipoles. The interference fields axial interference field IBz is tracked and a ...

An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for analyzing and extracting skill and knowledge information from an electronic document (104) and for storing the extracted skill and knowledge information into predefined fields or tables in a target database (110) comprises a content analysis and semantic network engine (216) for analyzing and extracting skill and knowledge information from the...

A self-service terminal (SST)14a comprises a user interface 22 having means such as a card reader for identifying a user, means such as the card reader for obtaining contact information for a communication device such as a telephone associated with a user and contact means 17 for establishing a link with the communication device 21 to allow a transaction to be entered thereby. The means for obtain...

A method of incentivising members of a disease management program to comply with the program by splitting the program into general program areas and specific program areas. The general program areas are relevant to all of the diseases with which members of the program are stricken while the specific program areas are only relevant to some disease managed by the program. Members of the program are ...

A computer network has plural computer systems, plural printers and a server. Each computer system has an application program for generating print data for the printers. The server has a workflow management program which (1) monitors and controls the flow of jobs computer systems send the printer and (2) a computer model representing the current system state. In response to a network event occurri...

The invention concerns the provision of a peer-to-peer content popularity service and particularly to a server, methods and computer program products for providing such a service. A server 30 is provided on a peer-to-peer network. The server 30 is arranged to receive data from supplying client nodes 10,20 concerning search requests received at the supplying client nodes 10, 20 and to aggregate mat...

In a world of increasing volume and speed of data delivery, management and assimilation of information present ever-greater challenges. A novel method is presented for data presentation and navigation based on shred information categorisation, and its iterative application to build information structures. As discrete and differentiated information channels become more integrated a paradigm shift i...

Computing becomes pervasive as intelligence is added to devices. Exploiting such intelligence remains a challenge. An abundance of irrelevant material and lack of navigation could hinder user satisfaction. Other concerns include speed, security and administration to control access. Prior methods assume intermittent connectivity between senders and receivers of information, but technology advances ...

Developments in communications have increased volumes of traffic travelling over network circuits. Internet architectural design means problems of overload and slowness are inherent. Remedies have been found, including server caching and accelerators, which address symptoms not causes. Much traffic is unnecessary given human information processing characteristics. An alternative is presented based...

With the continuing developments in content delivery of multi-media forms, to an increasing array of devices, across a series of discrete media channels, there is potential for duplication, confusion and information overload for users. Information confusion and congestion are also possible outcomes of discrete ownership of different content, media and transmission channels. To overcome these diffi...

An automated payment system comprises a data store (14) holding financial data of a user, A first (12) beacon device capable of wireless message transmission and at least one portable device (10) capable of receiving such message transmissions. The first beacon is arranged to broadcast a series of inquiry messages (1) according to a first communications protocol, such as Bluetooth. The portable de...

A method is disclosed for providing an incentive to a user to provide user information via a network to a website in an electronic commerce environment. In the method, an incentive is offered to the user via the network in exchange for commercially valuable information about the user. A response is then received from the user to the offer. If the response of the user is an acceptance of the offer,...

Advances in mobile telephones have bought a revolution in interpersonal contact and communications. Ease of use, convenience and low cost have been factors in growth. Applications are set to grow with enhanced speed and features. Security has been realised with SIM cards and passwords. With the explosion of other digital services, including Internet, Intranets, Digital TV's and home networking the...