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9. A device for detecting micro-leaks in a wall, including a capsule (11) covering and surrounding a micro-leak (12) by a peripheral side (28), a device for detecting a chemical species having leaked, a pipe (14) connecting a main face (27) of the capsule and the detection device, and a pump (16) circulating gas through the pipe, characterised in that the capsule (11) includes the main face (27), the peripheral face (28) and ribs (29), where the main face is essentially flat, the peripheral face is essentially perpendicular to the main face and has openings (32), and the ribs (29) are located under the main face, diverging from one another in a radial direction, from a location (30) where the pipe (14) emerges from the capsule in the peripheral wall (28), delimiting channels (31) leading respectively to the openings (32) of the peripheral wall.
10. A device for detecting micro-leaks according to claim 9, characterised in that a total area of the openings (32) is larger than a total section of the channels (31) arriving at the location (30) where the pipe emerges, itself being larger than a section of the pipe (14).
11. A device for detecting micro-leaks according to claim 9, characterised in that the location (30) where the pipe emerges is central, and in that there are at least eight channels and openings.
12. A device for detecting micro-leaks according to claim 11, characterised in that the capsule is square and has six channels and six openings per side.
13. A device for detecting micro-leaks according to claim 9, characterised in that the detection device includes a resonant optical cavity (15) towards which the circulating gas is directed, and a laser (19) set to a line of absorption of light by the chemical species, and the pump (16) has a flow rate at most equal to 1 lmin of the gas.
14. A device for detecting micro-leaks according to claim 13, characterised in that the flow rate of the pump is between 60 and 120 cm3min of the gas.
15. A device for detecting micro-leaks according to claim 13, characterised in that the resonant cavity is V-shaped.
16. A device for detecting micro-leaks, according to claim 9, characterised in that the ribs (29) have a lower edge (34) which rises from the peripheral face (28) to the pipe (14).
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 computer implemented method for providing news to a computer user in response to receiving a news query from the computer user, the method comprising:
identifying an interest entity of the computer user;
obtaining expanded entity data corresponding to the interest entity from a related entity source, the expanded entity data comprising related entity data identifying a plurality of related entities that are related to the interest entity;
generating an expanded news query for news content according to the interest entity and the expanded entity data;
obtaining a plurality of references to news content according to the news query and the expanded news query;
generating a news presentation according to the obtained references to news content; and
providing the news presentation to the computer user.
2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the interest entity is associated with a category.
3. The computer implemented method of claim 2, wherein the expanded entity data further comprises category data corresponding to the category associated with the interest entity, wherein the category data comprises category entities identifying all of the bases of relationships that an interest entity associated with the category may have with related entities, each category entity identifying a basis of a relationship that an interest entity associated with the category may have with a related entity.
4. The computer implemented method of claim 3, wherein the bases of the relationships between the interest entity and the plurality of related entities identified in the related entity data is a subset of the bases of relationships between an interest entity associated with the category and related entities as identified by the category data.
5. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein generating the expanded news query for news content according to the interest entity and the expanded entity data comprises generating the expanded news query to include a request for the interest entity, the plurality of related entities, and the category entities.
6. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the obtained plurality of references to news content comprise interest entity references to news content related to the interest entity and general references to news content not related to the interest entity; and
wherein generating a news presentation according to the obtained references to news content comprises grouping the interest entity references to news content and presenting the interest entity references to news content as being associated with the category of the interest entity.
7. The computer implemented method of claim 5 further comprising:
identifying a plurality of interest entities of the computer user, each of the plurality of interest entities being associated with a category;
obtaining expanded entity data for each of the plurality of interest entities;
generating a plurality of expanded news queries corresponding to each of the plurality of interest entities;
obtaining references to news content for each of the plurality of expanded news queries; and
generating a news presentation according to the obtained references to news content, wherein at least a portion of the obtained references to news content is organized according to categories associated with the plurality of interest entities.
8. The computer implemented method of claim 2, wherein generating the expanded news query for news content according to the interest entity and the expanded entity data comprises generating the expanded news query to include a request for the interest entity and the plurality of related entities.
9. The computer implemented method of claim 8, wherein the obtained plurality of references to news content comprise interest entity references to news content related to the interest entity and general references to news content not related to the interest entity; and
wherein generating a news presentation according to the obtained references to news content comprises grouping the interest entity references to news content and presenting the interest entity references to news content as being associated with the category of the interest entity.
10. A computer readable medium bearing computer executable instructions which, when executed on a computing system comprising at least a processor executing the instructions retrieved from the medium, carry out a method for providing news to a computer user in response to receiving a news query from the computer user, the method comprising:
identifying an interest entity of the computer user, the interest entity being associated with a category;
obtaining expanded entity data corresponding to the interest entity from a related entity source, the expanded entity data comprising:
related entity data identifying a set of related entities that are related to the interest entity; and
category data corresponding to the category associated with the interest entity, the category data comprising a set of category entities identifying all of the bases of relationships that an interest entity associated with the category may have with related entities, each category entity identifying a basis of a relationship that an interest entity associated with the category may have with a related entity;
generating an expanded news query for news content according to the interest entity and the expanded entity data;
obtaining a plurality of references to news content according to the news query and the expanded news query;
generating a news presentation according to the obtained references to news content, wherein at least a portion of the obtained references to news content are organized according the category associated with the interest entity; and
providing the news presentation to the computer user.
11. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein generating the expanded news query for news content according to the interest entity and the expanded entity data comprises generating the expanded news query to include a request for the interest entity, the plurality of related entities, and the category entities.
12. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein generating a news presentation according to the obtained references to news content comprises grouping a portion of the interest entity references to news content according to the category associated with the interest entity.
13. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises obtaining expanded entity data corresponding to the interest entity from a plurality of related entity sources.
14. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises
identifying a plurality of interest entities of the computer user, each of the plurality of interest entities being associated with a category;
obtaining expanded entity data for each of the plurality of interest entities from a related entity source;
generating a plurality of expanded news queries corresponding to each of the plurality of interest entities;
obtaining references to news content for each of the plurality of expanded news queries; and
generating a news presentation according to the obtained references to news content, wherein at least a portion of the obtained references to news content is organized according to categories associated with the plurality of interest entities.
15. A computer system for providing news results in response to receiving a news query from the computer user, the system comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the processor executes instructions stored in the memory as part of or in conjunction with additional components to respond to the news query, the additional components comprising:
an interest entity retrieval component configured to obtain interest entity information identifying an interest entity of the computer user, the interest entity being associated with a category;
an expanded data retrieval component configure to obtain related entity data identifying related entities of the interest entity and category data corresponding to the associated category;
an expanded query generator that generates an expanded news query according to the interest entity and the related entity data;
a news retrieval component configured to obtain references to news content from a news content store according to the expanded news query from the expanded query generator;
a news presentation generator that generates a news presentation for the computer user according to the obtained references to news content and provides the news presentation to the computer user.
16. The computer system of claim 15, wherein subject matter of the expanded news query comprises the interest entity, related entities, and category entities.
17. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the interest entity retrieval component is configured to obtain interest entity information identifying a plurality of interest entities of the computer user, each interest entity being associated with a category;
wherein the expanded data retrieval component is configure to obtain related entity data identifying related entities for the plurality of interest entities and category data corresponding to the associated categories;
wherein the expanded query generator generates an expanded news query for each of the plurality of interest entities and corresponding related entity data;
wherein the computer system further comprises an expanded query merger component that combines the expanded news queries of interest entities of the same category to generate one or more combined expanded news queries; and
wherein the news retrieval component is configured to obtain references to news content from a news content store according to the one or more combined expanded news queries.
18. The computer system of claim 17, wherein the expanded data retrieval component is configure to obtain related entity data identifying related entities for the plurality of interest entities and category data corresponding to the associated categories from a plurality of related entity sources.
19. The computer system of claim 17, wherein the news presentation generator is configured to generate the news presentation for the computer user according to the obtained references to news content and including a grouping of the interest entity references to news content and present and present the interest entity references as being associated with the category of the interest entity.
20. The computer system of claim 17, wherein interest entity retrieval component is configured to obtain interest entity information identifying a plurality of interest entities of the computer user, each interest entity being associated with a category, from a plurality of interest entity sources.