1. A composition comprising a polymer formed from a first composition comprising:
i) an uncrosslinked elastomeric polymer, and
ii) a sulfide modifier represented by Formula 1:
AS\u2014Y-Zm\u2003\u2003(Formula 1), and
wherein
Y is (C12-C100) aralkyl, (C12-C100) aryl, (C12-C100)alkyl, or (C12-C100) dialkylether (alkyl-O-alkyl), and wherein each may be optionally substituted with (C1-C4) alkyl, (C1-C4) alkoxy, (C7-C16) aryl, (C7-C16) aralkyl, nitrile, amine, NO2, alkoxy, or thioalkyl;
S is sulfur;
A is hydrogen, \u2014(S)p\u2014R1 or -MR2R3R4;
Z is \u2014SH, \u2014S-MR5R6R7, \u2014S\u2014(S)p\u2014R8, \u2014NR9R10, \u2014NR11COR12, \u2014O\u2014CO\u2014R13, \u2014NCO, or \u2014COOR14;
M is silicon or tin;
N is nitrogen;
O is oxygen;
m is the number one, two or three;
p is the number one, two, three, four or five;
R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13 and R14 are the same or different, and are each, independently, selected from hydrogen (H), (C1-C16) alkyl, (C6-C16) aryl, (C7-C16) aralkyl or (C3-C30) tri(hydrocarbyl)silyl, and wherein the hydrocarbyl groups are each independently selected from (C1-C16) alkyl, (C6-C16) aryl, or (C7-C16) aralkyl.
2. The composition of claim 1, wherein
Y is (C12-C100) alkyl, (C12-C100) aralkyl, or (C12-C100) aryl;
A is hydrogen, \u2014(S)p\u2014R1 or \u2014SiR2R3R4;
Z is \u2014SH, \u2014S\u2014SiR2R3R4, \u2014S\u2014(S)p\u2014R8, \u2014NR9R10, \u2014NR11COR12, or \u2014COOR14;
m is the number one R1, R2, R3, R4, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12 and R14 are the same or different, and are each, independently, selected from hydrogen (H), (C1-C16) alkyl, (C6-C16) aryl, (C7-C16) aralkyl or (C3-C30) tri(hydrocarbyl)silyl, and wherein the hydrocarbyl groups are each independently selected from (C1-C16) alkyl, (C6-C16) aryl, or (C7-C16) aralkyl.
3. The composition of claim 1, wherein the uncrosslinked elastomeric polymer comprises a chemical moiety derived from at least one coupling agent selected from the group consisting of tin halide, tin alkoxide, silicon halide, and silicon alkoxide.
4. The composition of claim 1, further comprising a polystyrene.
5. The composition of claim 2, further comprising a polystyrene.
6. The composition of claim 1, further comprising a butadieneacrylonitrile copolymer with an acrylonitrile unit content from 5 to 60 weight percent, based on the weight of the copolymer, and wherein the butadieneacrylonitrile copolymer is partially hydrogenated or fully hydrogenated.
7. The composition of claim 2, further comprising a butadieneacrylonitrile copolymer with an acrylonitrile unit content from 5 to 60 weight percent, based on the weight of the copolymer, and wherein the butadieneacrylonitrile copolymer is partially hydrogenated or fully hydrogenated.
8. The composition of claim 3, further comprising a butadieneacrylonitrile copolymer with an acrylonitrile unit content from 5 to 60 weight percent, based on the weight of the copolymer, and wherein the butadieneacrylonitrile copolymer is partially hydrogenated or fully hydrogenated.
9. The composition of claim 1, wherein the elastomeric polymer is selected from at least one of isoprene homopolymers, isoprene copolymers, isoprene terpolymers, butadiene homopolymers, butadiene copolymers, butadiene terpolymers, butadiene-styrene copolymers or butadiene-styrene terpolymers.
10. A crosslinked composition comprising an elastomeric polymer formed from a second composition comprising:
1) a filler;
2) a vulcanization agent; and
3) a modified polymer, which is formed from a first composition comprising:
i) an uncrosslinked elastomeric polymer, and
ii) a sulfide modifier represented by the Formula 1:
AS\u2014Y-Zm\u2003\u2003(Formula 1), and
wherein
Y is (C12-C100) aralkyl, (C12-C100) aryl, (C12-C100) alkyl and (C12-C100) dialkylether (alkyl-O-alkyl), and wherein each which may be optionally substituted with (C1-C4) alkyl, (C1-C4) alkoxy, (C7-C16) aryl, (C7-C16) aralkyl, nitrile, amine, NO2, alkoxy, or thioalkyl;
S is sulfur;
A is hydrogen, \u2014(S)p\u2014R1 or -MR2R3R4;
Z is \u2014SH, \u2014S-MR5R6R7, \u2014S\u2014(S)p\u2014R8, \u2014NR9R10, \u2014NR11COR12, \u2014O\u2014CO\u2014R13, \u2014NCO, \u2014COOR14;
M is silicon or tin;
N is nitrogen;
O is oxygen;
m is the number one, two or three;
p is the number one, two, three, four or five; and
R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13 and R14 are the same or different, and are each, independently, selected from hydrogen (H), (C1-C16) alkyl, (C6-C16) aryl, (C7-C16) aralkyl or (C3-C30) tri(hydrocarbyl)silyl, and wherein the hydrocarbyl groups are each, independently, selected from (C1-C16) alkyl, (C6-C16) aryl, or (C7-C16) aralkyl.
11. The composition of claim 10, wherein
Y is (C12-C100) alkyl, (C12-C100) aralkyl, or (C12-C100) aryl;
A is hydrogen, \u2014(S)p\u2014R1 or \u2014SiR2R3R4;
Z is \u2014SH, \u2014S\u2014SiR2R3R4, \u2014S\u2014(S)p\u2014R8, \u2014NR9R10, \u2014NR11COR12, or \u2014COOR14; and
R1, R2, R3, R4, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12 and R14 are the same or different, and are each, independently, selected from hydrogen (H), (C1-C16) alkyl, (C6-C16) aryl, (C7-C16) aralkyl or (C3-C30) tri(hydrocarbyl)silyl, and wherein the hydrocarbyl groups are each, independently, selected from (C1-C16) alkyl, (C6-C16) aryl, or (C7-C16) aralkyl.
12. A tire tread comprising the composition of claim 10.
13. A modified polymer formed from a composition comprising:
i) an uncrosslinked elastomeric polymer, and
ii) a sulfide modifier, represented by the Formula 1:
AS\u2014Y-Zm\u2003\u2003(Formula 1), and
wherein
Y is (C12-C100) aralkyl, (C12-C100) aryl, (C12-C100) alkyl, or (C12-C100) dialkylether (alkyl-O-alkyl), and wherein each may be optionally substituted with (C1-C4) alkyl, (C1-C4) alkoxy, (C7-C16) aryl, (C7-C16) aralkyl, nitrile, amine, NO2, alkoxy, or thioalkyl;
S is sulfur;
A is hydrogen, \u2014(S)p\u2014R1 or -MR2R3R4;
Z is \u2014SH, \u2014S-MR5R6R7, \u2014S\u2014(S)p\u2014R8, \u2014NR9R10, \u2014NR11COR12, \u2014O\u2014CO\u2014R13, \u2014NCO, or \u2014COOR14;
M is silicon or tin;
N is nitrogen;
O is oxygen;
m is the number one, two or three;
p is the number one, two, three, four or five;
R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13 and R14 are the same or different, and are each, independently, selected from hydrogen (H), (C1-C16) alkyl, (C6-C16) aryl, (C7-C16) aralkyl or (C3-C30) tri(hydrocarbyl)silyl, and wherein the hydrocarbyl groups are each independently selected from (C1-C16) alkyl, (C6-C16) aryl, or (C7-C16) aralkyl.
14. The polymer of claim 13, wherein
Y is (C12-C100) alkyl, (C12-C100) aralkyl, or (C12-C100) aryl;
A is hydrogen, \u2014(S)p\u2014R1 or \u2014SiR2R3R4;
Z is \u2014SH, \u2014S\u2014SiR2R3R4, \u2014S\u2014(S)p\u2014R8, \u2014NR9R10, \u2014NR11COR12, or \u2014COOR14;
R1, R2, R3, R4, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12 and R14 are the same or different, and are each, independently, selected from hydrogen (H), (C1-C16) alkyl, (C6-C16) aryl, (C7-C16) aralkyl or (C3-C30) tri(hydrocarbyl)silyl, and wherein the hydrocarbyl groups are each independently selected from (C1-C16) alkyl, (C6-C16) aryl, or (C7-C16) aralkyl.
15. The polymer of claim 13, wherein the composition further comprises at least one coupling agent selected from tin halide, tin alkoxide, silicon halide, or silicon alkoxide.
16. The composition of claim 1, wherein the uncrosslinked elastomeric polymer is prepared from a mixture comprising at least one coupling agent selected from tin halide, tin alkoxide, silicon halide, or silicon alkoxide.
17. An article comprising at least one component formed from the composition of claim 1.
18. The article of claim 17, wherein the article is selected from the group consisting of a tire component, an automotive part, a footwear component, a belt, a gasket, a seal, and a hose.
19. An article comprising at least one component formed from the polymer of claim 13.
20. The article of claim 19, wherein the article is selected from the group consisting of a tire component, an automotive part, a footwear component, a belt, a gasket, a seal, and a hose.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A system for targeting advertising content of a first or second sponsor to a plurality of mobile communication facilities, the system comprising one or more computers having computer readable mediums having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of the one or more computers, causes the system to perform the steps of:
(a) receiving from a website publisher or an application provider respective requests for advertising content corresponding to the plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality of mobile communication facilities includes a first type of mobile communication facility and a second type of mobile communication facility, wherein a rendering capability of the first type of mobile communication facility is different from a rendering capability of the second type of mobile communication facility;
(b) receiving a contextual datum associated with a website or an application accessed by the group of users;
(c) selecting respective advertising content from the first sponsor and the second sponsor based at least on a relevancy of each advertising content to the contextual datum associated with the website or the application, wherein each advertising content includes a first item and a second item, wherein the first item requires the rendering capability of the first type of mobile communication facility to be rendered thereon and wherein the second item requires the rendering capability of the second type of mobile communication facility to be rendered thereon, wherein the first item is incompatible with the second type of mobile communication facility and the second item is incompatible with the first type of mobile communication facility;
(d) receiving a bid from the first sponsor offered for delivery of the advertising content of the first sponsor to users associated with the contextual datum associated with the website or the application;
(e) receiving a bid from the second sponsor offered for delivery of the advertising content of the second sponsor to users associated with the contextual datum associated with the website or the application;
(f) attributing a priority to the delivery of the advertising content of the first sponsor over the delivery of the advertising content of the second sponsor to users associated with the contextual datum associated with the website or the application based upon a determination that a yield derived from the financial consideration of the first sponsor is greater than a yield derived from the financial consideration of the second sponsor; and
(g) transmitting the first item of the advertising content of the first sponsor instead of the first item of the advertising content of the second sponsor to the first type of mobile communication facility for display thereon and transmitting the second item of the advertising content of the first sponsor instead of the second item of the advertising content of the second sponsor to the second type of mobile communication facility for display thereon.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the contextual datum associated with the website or the application is provided at least by:
(a) a carrier;
(b) a publisher;
(c) an application developer;
(d) a handset manufacturer;
(e) an advertiser; or
(f) a provider of offline data.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the item is:
(a) audio;
(b) text;
(c) video;
(d) an image;
(e) a banner;
(f) a ringtone;
(g) an interactive application; or
(h) a game.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the group of users are identified via at least:
(a) a cookie;
(b) a handset identification; or
(c) a private header.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the rendering capability comprises one or more hardware or software characteristics selected from the list consisting of:
(a) make of mobile communication facility;
(b) model of mobile communication facility;
(c) operating system of the mobile communication facility;
(d) operating system version of the mobile communication facility;
(e) MIDP support;
(f) polyphonic ringtone support;
(g) ringtone support;
(h) video download support;
(i) video streaming support;
(j) WAP push support;
(k) WML support;
(l) wallpaper support;
(m) XHTML support;
(n) touch screen support;
(o) a display resolution;
(p) a screen size;
(q) processor type of the mobile communication facility;
(r) processing speed of the mobile communication facility;
(s) storage capability of the mobile communication facility; and
(t) memory capacity of the mobile communication facility.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein each yield represents an expected revenue associated with the respective advertising content, wherein the expected revenue is expressed as one of:
(a) a cost-per-thousand impression (CPM) of the respective advertising content on the plurality of mobile communication devices;
(b) a cost-per-click (CPC) of the respective advertising content on the plurality of mobile communication devices, where the yield takes into consideration a historical or expected clickthrough rate;
(c) a cost-per-action (CPA), where the yield takes into consideration a historical or expected action conversion rate; and
(d) a cost-per-engagement (CPE) of the respective advertising content on the plurality of mobile communication devices.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein each bid is determined at the time of the requests for the advertising content.
8. The system of claim 7, wherein a sponsor is competing for placement in a bidded competitive auction.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the contextual datum is based on contextual information associated with a webpage or application.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein the contextual information further includes a link structure.
11. The system of claim 1, wherein the contextual information further includes an inbound link.
12. The system of claim 1, wherein the contextual information further includes an outbound link.
13. The system of claim 1, wherein the contextual information further includes meta data.